That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panemet Circen.
Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.
It is no doubt possible to fly – but first you must know how to dance like an angel.
It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.
Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses – generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?
And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
You’re going to women? Don’t forget your whip!
Seducing one’s neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor’s opinion – who can match women in this clever ploy?
Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin – or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!
Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.
A woman’s pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person’s bed to the public marketplace.
Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.
What do you believe in? – In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices – and to make sure that somebody notices.
Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question “why” is lacking. What does nihilism mean? – that the supreme values devaluate themselves.
We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.
Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: “All that is worthless” – and want to create no value themselves.
In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.