Emotions and Feelings

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

They are now informing me that not only are they better than the powerful, the masters of the world whose spittle they have to lick (not from fear, not at all from fear! but because God orders them to honour those in authority) – not only are they better, but they have a “better time”, or at least will have a better time one day. But enough! enough! I can’t bear it any longer. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop where ideals are fabricated – it seems to me just to stink of lies.

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore.

Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack of culture, which has no way of grasping why they really suffer, or what they lack in life.

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness

Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving mercy?

One is punished most for one’s virtues.