"Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises"
"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses"
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything"
"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them"
"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"
"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"
"We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers"
"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"
"What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame"
"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted"
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Art is the proper task of life"
"Fear is the mother of morality"
"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend"
"Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you"
"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm"
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance"
"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"
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving"
"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all"
"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"
"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one"
"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"
"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"
"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood"
