Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
A subject for a great poet would be god's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.