Art raises its head where creeds relax.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
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.'
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
