“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Art“The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.”
God“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Art“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
Best“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
Life“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.”
Life“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!”
Power“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.”
Life“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
Good“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
Freedom“All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?”
Truth“Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”
Good“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
Art“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
Life“A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.”
Love“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete 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.”
Truth“When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.”
Art“In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.”
Truth“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”
Power“Success has always been a great liar.”
Great“Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
Food“Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.”
Love