 What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? |
| 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. |
| The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. |
| Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. |
| I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. |
| 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. |
| Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. |
| Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. |
| It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. |
| In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. |
| We have art in order not to die of the truth. |
| Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. |
| You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. |
| There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. |
| The doer alone learneth. |
| Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. |
| Without music, life would be a mistake. |
| Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. |
| Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. |
| There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. |
