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.

melalui musik, bahkan hasrat kita dapat meikmati dirinya sendiri

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...

today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would make us seem very strange and incomprehensibleto the author and his contemporaries, – they read it...

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

kedewasaan seseorang: setelah menemukan kembali keseriusaan yang pernah dimilikinya saat masih kanakkanak, saat sedang bermain.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the...

Sensuality often hastens the “Growth of Love” so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

However modest one may be in one’s demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the...

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right –especially when one is right.

Man has been reared by his errors: first he never saw himself other than imperfectly, second he attributed to himself imaginary qualities, third he felt himself in a false order of rank with animal and...

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect of command, is the decisive sign of sovereignty and strength. In other words, the less one knows...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.