“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
Love“Success has always been a great liar.”
Great“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
Love“Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?”
God“Art is the proper task of life.”
Art“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“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.”
Truth“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”
God“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”
Death“There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.”
Religion“In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.”
Education“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
Power“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
Power“Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.”
Great“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.”
Great“Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.”
Men“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.”
Dad“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Strength“All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?”
Truth“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
Great“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
God