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.