Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
I teach you beyond Man ( superman ). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?
Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the luckily circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Better know nothing than half - know many things.
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once.
When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Has a woman who know that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
Great intellects are skeptical.
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Should not the given be thankful that the receiver received? Is not receiving, mercy?
Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
What is evil? - whatever springs from weakness.
When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
Insanity in individual is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it s the rule.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation,it strengthens the power of resistance.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
Necessity is not an established face, but an interpretation.
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
He who has a ''why to live'' can bear with almost any ''how''
I understand by freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
Only sick music makes money today.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the oath they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it , a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
The lie is a condition of life.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
We ought to face our destiny with courage.
In the man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.
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