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A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.
There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.
I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.
As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.
I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.