It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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.'
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.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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.
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.
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?
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
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.'
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.