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...

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering mirages called ‘philosophical systems’; with bewitching deceptive power they show the...

If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements, power and power politics, -if you take the quantum of intelligence, seriousness, will, and self-overcoming that you embody and expend it all...

Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that’s how you learn to love! That’s why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has...

Die Sinnlichkeit übereilt oft das Wachsthum der Liebe, so dass die Wurzel schwach bleibt und leicht auszureissen ist.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

sesuai dengan diri kita, kita semua purapura lebih sederhana dari yang sebenarnya: inilah cara dimana kita dapat bersantai dari orang lain

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use...

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable...

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which...

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed...

One must not let oneself be misled: they say ‘Judge not!’ but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even to be angry. They would have blood from you in all innocence; blood...

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.