“The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
“So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.”
“What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.”
“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.”
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.”
“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.”
“The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.”
“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.”
“Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.”
“The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.”
“Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.”
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
“When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.”
“Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”
“In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.”
“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”
“A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”
“The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.”
“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
“The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart --not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''”
“Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!”
“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
“You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.”
“The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.”
“What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.”
“It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.”