Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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.

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.

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.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

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.

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.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

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.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The doer alone learneth.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Art is the proper task of life.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: 'Oh, that's just the way things are done around here.' Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.