We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once. |
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. |
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them. |
We, the generous and rich in spirit, who stand at the sides of the streets like open fountains and would hinder no one drinking from us. . . . |
What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth |
What a time experiences as evil is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good-the atavism of a more ancient ideal. |
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. |
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. |
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…? |
What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm. |
What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. |
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'? |
What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness |
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. |
What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome |