Emotions and Feelings

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

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

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.

Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.Those whom I deemedChanged to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,Have aged and lost our old affinity:One has to change to stay akin to me.