For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write
In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
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.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
And 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.
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.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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.
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
