Possessions are usually diminished by possession.
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy.
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.
There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated.
Fall down seven times, stand up eight. – Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.
The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime – it even presupposes it.
Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.
Never trust a thought that didn’t come by walking.
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.
How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.
You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October...
It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one’s self.
When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.
Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.