A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.
Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Amor Fati β βLove Your Fateβ, which is in fact your life.
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
Love, too, has to be learned.
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
Art is the proper task of life.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?