 One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. |
| I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. |
| Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. |
| Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god? |
| In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. |
| Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too. |
| The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. |
| There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day. |
| On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. |
| Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. |
| He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. |
| It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. |
| In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad. |
| He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. |
| God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. |
| And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. |
| To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. |
| The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. |
| Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. |
| Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help. |
