“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.”
“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.”
“We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.”
“Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!”
“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”
“Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood.”
“To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.”
“Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs”
“Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!”
“One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.”
“After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.”
“Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.”
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.”
“Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.”
“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
“Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.”
“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
“One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
“The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.”
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”
“The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.”
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.”
“These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.”
“Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.”
“He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.”
“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, epochs it is the rule.”
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”