Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!
It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.
Great men’s errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men’s truths.
The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one’s level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence.
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom – for example, in senates and learned societies.
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand – or escape.
We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.
The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that “being” is merely a continual “has been,” a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.
Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life’s alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.
I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.
It is not your sin – it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!
I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.
So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.