One should hold fast one’s heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one’s head run away!

Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions,...

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man’s interpretation of his life and struggles.

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same...

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Knowing one’s ‘individuality’. – We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seeing us for the first time we are something quite different from what we consider ourselves to...

You say ‘I’ and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it – is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say ‘I’ but...

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to...

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among...

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

O puro espírito é pura mentira. Enquanto o padre continuar a passar por ser uma espécie superior – o padre, esse negador, esse caluniador, esse envenenador da vida por profissão – , não há resposta...

As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Nihilism is…not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.

consciousness,” their most impoverished and error-prone organ! I believe that on earth there has never been such a feeling of misery, such a leaden discomfort—while at the same time those old instincts had not all...

When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences–their insignificant, everyday experiences–so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others–and how many there are!–are driven...

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.–jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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.