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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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?
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
The lie is a condition of life.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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?
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
The lie is a condition of life.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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.
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
