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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.
O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!
You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!
Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.
Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.
Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.
You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.