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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
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