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.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
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.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
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