Society and the World

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

He who seeks equality amongst unequals seeks the absurd .

He who seeks equality amongst unequals seeks the absurd .

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.

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.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Success has always been a great liar.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Woman was God's second mistake.

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.

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.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.