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.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
art, being good & respect
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
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.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
The lie is a condition of life.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
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?
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Fear is the mother of morality.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Woman was God's second mistake.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
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?
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
The doer alone learneth.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.