"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'"
"Fear is the mother of morality"
"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted"
"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend"
"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect"
"Art is the proper task of life"
"Idleness is the parent of psychology"
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages"
"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies"
"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge"
"It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around"
"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night"
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"
"In everything one thing is impossible: rationality"
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play"
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point"
"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company"
"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters"
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance"
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn"
"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself"
"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"
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid"
"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman"
"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you"
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm"
"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons"
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies"
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had"
"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you"
"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one"
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands"
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it"
"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness"
"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends"
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything"
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience"
"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too"
"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"
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving"
"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"
"What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness"
"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger"
"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it"
"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion"
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob"
"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"
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger"
"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book"
