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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Life without music would be a mistake.

Plato is boring.

THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.

I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Since it architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens)

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

The historian is a prophet in reverse.

The last Christian died on the cross.

Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

When marrying, ask yourself this question Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age Everything else in marriage is transitory.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Without music life would be a mistake.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.

The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

This secret spoke Life herself unto me 'Behold,' said she, 'I am that which must ever surpass itself.'

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously

If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.