It is through being wounded that power grows and can, in the end, become tremendous |
It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness . |
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. |
It takes less time to learn how to write nobly than how to write lightly and straightforwardly |
It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds wall; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exist'. |
It was modesty which in Greece invented the word "philosopher" and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit --the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato. |
It was the sick and dying who despised the body and the earth and invented the things of heaven and the redeeming drops of blood: but even these sweet and dismal poisons they took from the body and the earth! |
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. |
Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology. |
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities |
Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her |
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. |
Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word ''chance'' have any meaning. |
Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases. |
Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established. |