Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance...

I have forgotten my umbrella.

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered...

They’re so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

You desire to LIVE “according to Nature”? Oh, you noble Stoics, what fraud of words! Imagine to yourselves a being like Nature, boundlessly extravagant, boundlessly indifferent, without purpose or consideration, without pity or justice, at...

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the “free will”...

I obviously do everything to be “hard to understand” myself

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the...

Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy–ah, they know only too well that...

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to...

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: – that violence is no longer...

But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the...

I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators,...

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

The solitary speaks.”One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the...

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa– blessing it rather than in love with it.

No one is accountable for existing at all, or for being constituted as he is, or for living in the circumstances and surroundings in which he lives. The fatality of his nature cannot be disentangled...

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Giving style” to one’s character – a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan...

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light–what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semilla.He aquí la diferencia entre los que creen y los que disfrutan.

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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night...

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also...

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Pain is not seen as an objection to life: ‘If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain…

Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do without bad weather and storms: whether...