There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how thespirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

Twofold misjudgement. – The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the...

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps...

Supposing that what is at any rate believed to be the ‘truth’ really is true, and the meaning of all culture is the reduction of the beast of prey ‘man’ to a tame and civilized...

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce…

Man liebt zuletzt seine Begierde, und nicht das Begehrte.

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

kepuasan diri melindungi orang bahkan dari terkena pilek. pernahkah seorang perempuan yang tahu bahwa ia berpakaian pantas terkena pilek? saya asumsikan dia hampir tidak berpakaian samasekali

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal… an exalted and noble ‘to this end.’ Perish in pursuit of this and...

desire” in mind — I know none of this from my experience. Even at this moment I look out upon my future — a broad future! — as upon a smooth sea: no desire ripples...

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

The wreckage of stars – I built a world from this wreckage.

To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand...

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept “leaf” is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the...

Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew:...

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

L’homme cherche un principe au nom duquel il puisse mépriser l’homme ; il invente un autre monde pour pouvoir calomnier et salir ce monde-ci ; en fait, il ne saisit jamais que le néant et...

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretense and overreaching and anticipating other. Virtue has come to consist of doing something in...

Uma virtude deve ser nossa invenção, nossa defesa e nossa necessidade pessoais: tomada em qualquer outro sentido, não passa de um perigo. Aquilo que não é uma condição vital é prejudicial à vida: uma virtude...

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Success has always been the greatest liar – and the “work” itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the “work,” whether of the...

In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

apa yang dilakukan demi cinta, selalu terjadi diluar kebaikan dan kejahatan

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

You say, it’s dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Besides this I place another equally obvious confirmation of my view that opera is based on the same principles as our Alexandrian culture. Opera is the birth of the theoretical man, the critical layman, not...