Emotions and Feelings

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

Belief in form but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man but for this to endure it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.