There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.