Emotions and Feelings

When thou goest to woman take thy whip.

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

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?