"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He"
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness"
"The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities"
"There are no facts, only interpretations"
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths"
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal"
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly"
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude"
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule"
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true"
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed"
"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good"
"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow"
"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets"
"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?"
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter"
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal"
"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings"
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy"
"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross"
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything"
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently"
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends"
"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god"
"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself"
"Success has always been a great liar"
"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species"
"Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities"
"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters"
"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"
"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent"
"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day"
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings"
"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do"
"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers"
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler"
"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate"
"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves"
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man"
"What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame"
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh"
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us"
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy"
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation"
"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love"
"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them"
"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises"
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything"
