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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

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

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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

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.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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.

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.

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

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

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

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