The masses seem to me worthy of notice in only three respects: first as blurred copies of great men, produced on bad paper with worn plates, further as a resistance to the great, and finally as the tools of the great; beyond that, may the devil and s |
The melancholia of everything completed! |
The miserable have no other medicine but hope. |
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power. |
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it |
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go |
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception |
The most dangerous physicians are those who can act in perfect mimicry of the born physician. |
The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed. |
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life |
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God |
The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons. |
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts. |
The people who marry make a good marriage not marriage in itself. |
The perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also something much more rare. |