I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. God
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else! power
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. love
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. life & men
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend. respect
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. art
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. faith
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes. friendship & love
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. truth
Without music, life would be a mistake. life & music
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. art
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. men
Fear is the mother of morality. fear
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. art
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god? God & love
Woman was God's second mistake. God
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. love
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. freedom
Art is the proper task of life. art & life
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. art
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. friendship
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. women
Art raises its head where creeds relax. art
The future influences the present just as much as the past. future
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. art & great
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? life
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings. love
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. truth
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. good & war
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? truth
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. alone & best
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. friendship, love & marriage
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow. truth
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. experience
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. love
Love is not consolation. It is light. love
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. best
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. life
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. friendship
In music the passions enjoy themselves. music
The doer alone learneth. alone & education
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob. God
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. love
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. love
Success has always been a great liar. great & success
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. God
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. power
When one has not had a good father, one must create one. dad & good
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth. truth
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. good & love
The lie is a condition of life. life
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman. women
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies. men & women
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? love
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. good
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs? men
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent. great
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying. learning
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. art, good & respect
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. home
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. truth
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders? God
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. great
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. power, time & truth
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. great
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. truth
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. women
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. religion
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. good
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. dad & good
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' death
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. life & love
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. education
I love those who do not know how to live for today. love
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. religion
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? life
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. knowledge & truth
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. great
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. great & men
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. best
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you. time
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. great & men
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. death & life
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. history & men
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. strength
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. God & time
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. men
Faith: not wanting to know what is true. faith
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. men & women
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. good & power
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. good & truth
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. hope
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. best & war
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. women
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. God & great
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. God
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. knowledge, love & wisdom
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. wisdom
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. forgiveness
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? wisdom
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. best
We have art in order not to die of the truth. art & truth
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. God & religion