Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. |
Man is so much more sensitive to the contempt of others than to contempt for himself. |
Man is the cruelest animal. |
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven. |
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. |
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. |
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good |
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. |
Many find their heart when they have lost their head. |
Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion. |
Master-morality and slave-morality. |
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. |
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better |
Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them. |
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful - but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away |