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I am a pure-blooded Polish nobleman without a single drop of bad blood - certainly not German blood.
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.
Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.
What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.
Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.
The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.
The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.
At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.