Aphorisms, quotes, sayings, phrases by Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm. Best Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Usually a beautiful surface conceals an unpredictable depth.

Conception without sin? This dogma denigrates conception itself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

If anyone, at least mentally, crossed the line beyond which the mystical lies, upon returning his thoughts were covered with stigmata.

A person who has endured long and severe suffering is bound to become a tyrant.

F. Nietzsche: With the help of philosophy, a person finds a shelter into which there is no path of tyranny, peace within himself, ornate spiritual passages, and this circumstance makes tyrants terribly angry.

Dogmas of religion. It is impossible to live without them! However, no one has yet been able to argue for them. Our existence is by no means proof, since an error could easily creep into the series of its conditions.

The concept of “Christianity” is fraught with a certain erroneous understanding, because the first Christian was Jesus, and he died for his faith. – Nietzsche

A true man is by nature a child who is only interested in games.

The Church, whatever it may be, always clips the wings of the Superman, preventing in every possible way his resurrection.

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Very smart people begin to be distrusted if they see their embarrassment.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal world and the superman - the rope sags over the abyss. The precious thing about a person is that he is a connecting road, not a goal.

Facts do not exist - there are only interpretations.

Whatever doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.

There is nothing in my head except personal morality, and creating for myself the right to it is the meaning of all my historical questions about morality. It is terribly difficult to create such a right for yourself.

Majestic natures suffer from doubts about their own greatness.

Whoever wants to justify existence must also be able to be God’s advocate before the devil.

Virtue only gives happiness and some kind of bliss to those who firmly believe in their own virtue - not at all to refined souls, whose virtue consists in a deep distrust of themselves and of all virtue. In the end, here too, faith makes you blessed! - and not, notice this carefully, virtue!

The founder of Christianity believed that people suffered more from nothing than from their sins: this was his delusion, the delusion of one who felt himself without sin, who lacked experience here.

Strange! As soon as I keep silent about some thought and stay away from it, this very thought certainly appears to me embodied in the form of a person, and I now have to be kind to this angel of God!

If you go to a woman, take a whip.

A stupid forehead rightfully requires, as an argument, a clenched fist.

A fact is always stupid.

Perfect knowledge of necessity would eliminate all oughtness, but would also comprehend the necessity of oughtness as a consequence of ignorance.

There is a degree of inveterate deceit that is called a clear conscience.

Anyone who wants to be a manager for people must have a reputation among them for a long period of time as the most dangerous enemy.

Spiritualizes the heart; the spirit sits and inspires courage in danger. Oh, this language!

Anyone who feels lack of free will is mentally ill; whoever denies it is stupid.

To someone who has an aversion to the sublime, not only yes, but also no seems too pathetic - he does not belong to the denying minds, and, if he happens to find himself on their paths, he suddenly stops and runs away - into the thickets of skepticism.

The supreme thesis: God forgives the repentant, - the same in translation: forgives the one who submits to the priest.

Only man resists the direction of gravity: he constantly wants to fall - up.

The teaching and the apostle, who does not see the weakness of his teaching, his religion, etc., blinded by the authority of the teacher and reverence for him, usually have greater power than the teacher. Never before had a man's influence and his deeds grown without blind disciples.

Heroism is the desire of a person heading towards his goal; he simply stops noticing and seeing everything else in life. Heroism is a voluntary act of self-destruction.

We praise what suits our taste: this means that when we praise, we praise our own taste - doesn’t this sin against all good taste?

Mystical explanations are considered profound. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

In every religion there is an exception to the religious person.

Pure spirit is pure lie.

On the other side of the North, on the other side of the ice, on the other side today is our life, our happiness.

Blood is the worst witness to truth; blood poisons the purest teaching to the point of madness and hatred of hearts.

Those with fever see only the ghosts of things, and those who have a normal temperature see only the shadows of things; Moreover, both need the same words.

In the heat of struggle, one can sacrifice one’s life: but the one who wins is consumed by the temptation to throw away his life. Every victory has contempt for life.

Faith saves, therefore it lies.

No winner believes in chance.

You have to worship proudly if you can't be an idol.

Moral people feel complacency when they have remorse.

Life would be a mistake without music.

Woman is God's second mistake.

When the gratitude of many to one casts aside all shame, glory arises.

Buddhism does not promise, but keeps its word; Christianity promises everything, but does not keep its word.

God himself cannot exist without wise people, Luther said, and with full right; but God can even less exist without stupid people - Luther didn’t say that!

To laugh means to be malicious, but with a clear conscience.

We lose interest in what we have learned as soon as we share it with others.

The martyrs only harmed the truth.

We need new ears for new music.

A person who never thinks about money, honors and influential acquaintances - how can he know humanity?

An evil god is needed no less than a good one - after all, you do not owe your own existence to tolerance and philanthropy. What is the use of a god who does not know anger, envy, cunning, ridicule, vindictiveness and violence?

A philologist is a teacher of slow reading.

A bad conscience is a tax that the invention of a clear conscience has imposed on people.

A person forgets about his guilt when he repents of it to another, but the latter, as a rule, always remembers it.

Death is close enough that there is no need to fear life.

Belief in cause and effect is rooted in the strongest of instincts: the instinct of revenge.

Be who you are!

When skepticism and longing combine, mysticism arises.

Anyone who is able to strongly feel the gaze of a thinker cannot escape the terrible impression made by animals whose eyes slowly, as if on a rod, stare out of their heads and look around.

Friedrich Nietzsche is a German philosopher, the author of non-academic teaching. His mental activity is based on clarifying the problems of reality, religion, and morality. His philosophical claims are aimed at destroying stereotypes; they contradict the established point of view. With his statements, the author moves away from rationalism and creates a new, irrational view of life. In our selection you will find statements by Friedrich Nietzsche about life, love, God, and women.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Culture is just a thin apple peel over the hot chaos.

The best must rule, and the best wants to rule! And where the teaching says otherwise, there are not enough better ones.

The best way to start the day well is to wake up and think if you can bring joy to at least one person today.

When the good moralize, they cause disgust; When the wicked moralize, they cause fear.

Many die too late, and others die too early. The teaching: “Die on time!” will still seem strange.

Interesting facts:

Do many of Nietzsche's sayings seem strange? There is a justification for this. He suffered from epilepsy since childhood; the disease was inherited from his father. In combination with a number of other serious illnesses, epilepsy developed in a severe form, which could not but affect the psyche. The philosopher developed his own picture of the perception of the world. Nietzsche's treatises can partly be called the cry of the soul of a sick person.

In a peaceful environment, a warlike person attacks himself.

I came to help you, and you complain that I don’t want to cry with you.

I laugh at everyone who is unable to laugh at themselves.

Those who suffer greatly are envied by the devil and expelled to heaven.

It is impossible to be free from what you are running away from.

No winner believes in chance!

God is dead: now we want the superman to live.

He who fights monsters must be careful not to become a monster himself. And if you look into the abyss for a long time, then the abyss also looks into you.

And if you no longer have a single ladder, you must learn to climb on your own head: how else would you want to climb higher?

Death is close enough that there is no need to fear life.

Talking a lot about yourself is also a way to hide yourself.

The greatest events are not our noisiest hours, but our quietest hours.

“Love your neighbor” means first of all: “Leave your neighbor alone!” “And it is precisely this detail of virtue that is associated with the greatest difficulties.

Even God has his own hell - this is his love for people.

Whoever wants to justify existence must also be able to be God’s advocate before the devil.

There is a degree of inveterate deceit that is called “clear conscience.”

What well? Everything that increases the sense of power, the will to power, power in a person. What's wrong? Everything that comes from weakness.

What falls, you still need to push.

The same thing happens to a person as to a tree. The more he strives upward, towards the light, the deeper his roots dig into the ground, downwards, into darkness and depth - towards evil.

Man is a rope stretched between an animal and a superman - a rope over an abyss.

What is valuable about a person is that he is a bridge, not a goal.

Being ashamed of your immorality is the first step of the ladder, at the top of which you will be ashamed of your morality.

Don't be afraid of losing someone. You will not lose the one you need in life. Those who were sent to you for experience are lost. Those who remain are those sent to you by fate.

Whoever wants to learn to fly must first learn to stand, and walk, and run, and climb, and dance: you cannot learn to fly right away!

Envious people often condemn what they cannot do and criticize those whose level they can never reach.

People who are distrustful of themselves want to be loved more than to love, so that one day, at least for a moment, they will be able to believe in themselves.

People are not equal. And they should not be equal! What would my love for the Superman be if I spoke differently?

People lie freely with their mouths, but their faces still tell the truth...

Just as there are no fish without bones, there are no people without flaws.

Dostoevsky is the only psychologist from whom I could learn something.

A sure way to make people angry and instill evil thoughts in them is to make them wait a long time.

Very lonely and noise becomes a comfort.

Beware of the little people! They feel insignificant in front of you, and their baseness smolders and flares up into invisible revenge.

They don’t plan friendship, they don’t shout about love, they don’t prove the truth.

Marriage is the most abused form of sexual life.

This is interesting:

Nietzsche's irrational theory has its roots, and the denial of the limits of human consciousness is completely justified. The philosopher spent the last 11 years in a mental hospital, where he wrote his works. In philosophical treatises, Nietzsche poured out his grievances and regrets and expressed life principles. He admitted that he had an intimate relationship with his sister; later the author’s revelations were published in the book “My Sister and Me.”

Anyone who is incapable of either love or friendship is most likely to bet on marriage.

You are entering into a marriage: be careful that it does not become a conclusion for you! You are in too much of a hurry when entering into a marriage, and the consequence is the dissolution of the marriage bond!

Marriage: this is what I call the will of two to create one, greater than those who created it. Marriage is mutual respect and honoring of this will.

What is done for the sake of love occurs outside the realm of good and evil.

Love your neighbors as yourself - but first become those who love themselves - loves with great love, loves with great contempt!

There are two ways to free you from suffering: quick death and lasting love.

For too long a slave and a tyrant have been hidden in a woman. Therefore, she is incapable of friendship: she knows only love.

The freer and stronger the individual, the more demanding his love becomes.

It is not through mutual love that the misfortune of unrequited love ends, but through greater love.

A real man wants two things: danger and games. And therefore he is looking for a woman as the most dangerous toy.

A man's happiness is called: I want. A woman's happiness is called: he wants it.

A woman knows little about honor. Let it be her honor to always love more than they love her, and never be second in love.

A woman understands children better than a man, but there is more childishness in a man than in a woman.

Who does a woman hate the most? The iron said to the magnet: “What I hate most of all is that you attract without having enough strength to drag with you.”

A man should beware of a woman when she loves: for then she is ready for any sacrifice, and everything else has no value in her eyes.

A man is a danger and a game. That's why he needs a woman, because she is a dangerous toy.

Motherhood is worthy of respect. Father is always just an accident.

Do you know?

During his lifetime, the thinker received virtually no support, but after his death his works became widespread. Few people know that it was Nietzsche’s philosophical thoughts that inspired Hitler to fight for the German Reich.

A man should beware of a woman when she hates: for in the depths of his soul he is only angry, but she is filthy.
If you go to a woman, take a whip.

In vengeance and love, a woman is more barbaric than a man.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. That is why he needs a woman - as the most dangerous toy.

Science hurts the modesty of all real women. At the same time, they feel as if they were looking under their skin or, even worse, under their dress and attire.

For women themselves, in the depths of their personal vanity there always lies impersonal contempt - contempt “for women.”

Seduce your neighbor into a good opinion of her and then wholeheartedly believe this opinion of your neighbor - who can compare with women in this trick!

I laugh at everyone who is unable to laugh at themselves.

It's better to dance poorly than to walk with a limp.

Don't get confused: actors die from lack of praise, real people die from lack of love.

A man’s happiness is called “I want.” A woman’s happiness is “He wants.”

Are you going to women? Don't forget the whip!

The church is a stone on the grave of God.

And most of all they hate the one who can fly.

A woman begins to hate when she stops charming.

If a woman exhibits scientific inclinations, then usually there is something wrong in her reproductive system.

What does a woman care about the truth! Her great art is a lie. Her main concern is illusion and beauty. And it is this art that we love in a woman.

A woman begins to lose shame, she forgets how to be afraid of a man. Thanks to this, a woman degenerates.

No philosopher has ever been right. Including me.

Everything that is done out of love is always done on the other side of good and evil.

You lovers of knowledge! Have you already committed a murder to find out what is in the soul of the murderer?

A person experiences true voluptuousness by raping himself.

To repent means to add a new one to the committed stupidity.

Anyone who is incapable of either love or friendship is most likely to bet on marriage.

I don’t understand why engage in slander. If you want to annoy someone,
It is enough to tell some truth about him.

In a real man there is always hidden a child who wants to play. And that’s why he needs a woman, like the most interesting toy.

Women are deprived of their childhood by constantly fussing with children as their educators.

Marriage is invented for mediocre people who are mediocre both in great love and in great friendship... But also for those rare people who are capable of both love and friendship.

Good deeds are subtle bad deeds, and bad deeds are the same good deeds, but in a rougher form.

Man is a fantastic animal who, in order to exist, must satisfy one need more than any other animal: the belief that his life has meaning.

If spouses did not live together, successful marriages would occur more often.

A person's demand to be loved is the greatest of all conceits.

When a hundred people stand next to each other, everyone loses his mind and gains some other one.

Facts do not exist - there are only interpretations.

Beliefs are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

The unnecessary is the enemy of the necessary.

It's better to dance awkwardly than to walk with a limp.

Whenever prudence says, “Don’t do this, it will be misinterpreted,” I always act contrary to it.

The one who praises pretends to give credit, but in reality he wants to receive even more.

We praise what we like; that is, we praise our own taste.

When you praise, you always praise yourself; When you scold, you always scold someone else.

People are grateful as much as they are prone to revenge. I pay good for good, and therefore evil for evil.

Isn't life too short to be bored!

The criminal's lawyers are rarely such artists as to turn all the beauty of the horror of the act in favor of the culprit.

The madness of individuals is the exception, but the madness of entire groups, parties, peoples, times is the rule.

It is inhumane to bless where you are cursed.

People treat their God most dishonestly: he does not dare to sin.

Seduce your neighbor into a good opinion of her and then wholeheartedly believe this opinion of your neighbor - who can compare with women in this trick!

A perfect woman engages in literature in the same way as she commits a small sin: for experience, in passing, looking around to see if anyone notices it, and so that someone will notice it...

Advice in the form of a riddle: “If the bonds do not break on their own, try to bite them with your teeth.”

Compassion in a man of knowledge is almost as funny as the tender hands of a Cyclops.

“Compassion for all” would be harshness and tyranny towards you, my neighbor!

Comparing a man and a woman in general, we can say the following: a woman would not be so brilliant in the art of dressing up if she did not instinctively feel
that her destiny is second roles.

To put yourself exclusively in such positions when it is impossible to have apparent virtues, when, on the contrary, like a tightrope dancer on his rope, you either fall, or stand, or get off safely...

Becoming a mature husband means regaining the seriousness that you had as a child during games.

To be ashamed of one's immorality is one of the steps of the ladder, at the top of which one is also ashamed of one's morality.

So cold, so icy that your fingers burn on it! Every hand trembles when it touches it! That is why it is considered red-hot.

Where love or hate does not play along, the woman plays mediocrely.

What is considered evil at a given time is usually an untimely echo of what was once considered good - an atavism of the oldest ideal.

It is only from the realm of feelings that all certainty, all clear conscience, all evidence of truth flows.
The most difficult time to wound our vanity is precisely when our pride is wounded.

Are you running ahead? -Are you doing this like a shepherd? Or as an exception? The third case would be a fugitive... The first question of conscience.

Heavy, gloomy people become lighter precisely from what burdens others, from love and hatred, and for a while they rise to their surface.

Do you want to win him over? So pretend that you are lost in front of him.

"Evil people have no songs." - Why do Russians have songs?

For women themselves, in the depths of their personal vanity there always lies impersonal contempt - contempt “for women.”

For stern people, sincerity is a matter of shame - and there is something valuable.

The devil has the broadest perspectives on God; That’s why he stays away from it - the devil is the bosom friend of knowledge.

It's a terrible thing to die at sea from thirst. Do you really want to salt your truth so much that it will never quench your thirst again?

Horrible experiences in life make it possible to figure out whether the person experiencing them is something terrible.

The familiarity of the strongest man irritates, because it cannot be repaid in the same coin.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration of a good person: on the contrary, a fair amount of it is rather a condition for all prosperity.

Formula of my happiness: Yes, No, straight line, goal...

Do you want to accompany? Or precede? Or go on your own? You need to know what you want and whether you want it. The fourth question of conscience.

Often sensuality overtakes the sprout of love, so that the root remains weak and is easily pulled out.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses with it.

Who has not had to sacrifice himself at least once for his good reputation?

He who achieves his ideal thereby outgrows it.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain, but over the fact that he does not feel pain where he expected it. Parable.

He who does not know how to put his will into things, at least still puts meaning into them: i.e. he believes that they already have a will. (Principle of "faith")

He who does not know how to find the road to his ideal lives more frivolously and shamelessly than a person without an ideal.

He who fights monsters must be careful not to become a monster himself. And if you look into the abyss for a long time, then the abyss also looks into you.

He who is a teacher to the core takes all things seriously, only taking into account his students - even himself.

Anyone who feels destined for contemplation and not for faith, for whom all believers are too noisy and intrusive, he defends himself from them.

Love for one is barbarism: for it is carried out to the detriment of all others. Also the love of God.

Love reveals the lofty and hidden qualities of the lover - what he has that is rare, exceptional: to that extent it easily deceives about what serves as his rule.

People are punished most for their virtues.

People rarely commit one indiscretion. The first indiscretion is always to do too much. That is why they usually do a second one - and this time they do too little...

People lie freely with their mouths, but the faces they make at the same time still tell the truth.

Talking a lot about yourself can also serve as a means of hiding yourself.

Can a donkey be tragic? - Why are you perishing under a weight that you can neither bear nor throw off?..

Sage in the role of an astronomer: - While you still feel the stars as something “above you,” you do not yet have the gaze of a knower.

Man created woman - but from what? From the rib of her god - her “ideal”...

Music is a means for self-gratification of passions.

We don't believe in the stupidity of smart people - what a violation of human rights!

We do not hate a person yet, since we consider him inferior to us; we hate only when we consider him equal to or superior to ourselves.

We lose interest in what we have learned as soon as we share it with others.

We look at life poorly if we do not notice in it the hand that, while sparing, kills.

We act in reality the same way as in a dream: we first invent and create for ourselves the person with whom we enter into communication - and now we forget about it.

The thought of suicide is a powerful comforting tool: it helps one get through other dark nights safely.

Alone with ourselves, we imagine everyone more simple-minded than ourselves: in this way we give ourselves a break from our neighbors.

Are we immoralists harming virtue? - As little as anarchists to kings. Only since they began to be shot down have they once again sat firmly on their throne. Moral: you need to shoot morality.

The people are a roundabout way of nature to come to six or seven great people. Yes, and then to get around them.

As for what “reliability” is, perhaps no one has yet been sufficiently sure.

Are you real or just an actor? Substitute or substituted itself? - In the end, maybe you’re just a fake actor... The second question of conscience.

Science hurts the modesty of all real women. At the same time, they feel as if they were looking under their skin or, even worse, under their dress and attire.

“Our neighbor is not our neighbor, but our neighbor’s neighbor,” every nation thinks so.

Our strongest instinct, the tyrant in us, is subject not only to our reason, but also to our conscience.

Our vanity wants what we do best to be considered the most difficult for us. On the origin of many types of morality.

There is no need to show cowardice in relation to your actions! There is no need to run away from them! - Remorse is indecent.

It is not the strength, but the duration of higher sensations that creates higher people.

It is not love for mankind, but the impotence of their love for mankind that prevents today's Christians from committing us to burning.

It’s not that you lied to me that shocked me, but that I no longer believe you.

There are no moral phenomena at all, there is only a moral interpretation of phenomena...

One must part with life, like Odysseus and Nausicaä - more a blessing than a lover.

Both sexes are deceived in each other - from this it happens that, in essence, they honor and love only themselves
(or, if you prefer, your own ideal). Thus, a man wants a woman to be peaceful, but a woman is essentially quarrelsome, like a cat, no matter how well she has learned to look peaceful.

Huge expectations from sexual love and the shame of these expectations spoil all prospects for women in advance.

One is looking for an obstetrician for his thoughts, the other is looking for a person whom he can help resolve them: this is how a good conversation arises.

The same affects in a man and a woman are still different in tempo - that is why a man and a woman never cease to misunderstand each other.

The danger of happiness. - “Everything serves for my good; Now every fate is dear to me - who wants to be my fate?

The aversion to dirt can be so great that it will prevent us from purifying ourselves - “justifying ourselves.”

The discovery of reciprocity should actually sober up the lover regarding the being he loves. "How? Even loving you is quite modest? Or quite stupid? Or or".

People start to distrust very smart people if they see them embarrassed.

Looking for the beginning, you become cancer. The historian looks back; in the end, he also believes in reverse.

In relation to any party. The shepherd always needs a leading ram, so that he himself does not become a ram on occasion.

Help yourself: then everyone will help you. The principle of love for one's neighbor.

The understanding of the tragic weakens and intensifies along with sensuality.

Poets are shameless about their experiences: they exploit them.

Idleness is the mother of all psychology. How? Is psychology a vice?

He who despises himself still honors himself as the person who despises.

The attractiveness of knowledge would be insignificant if one did not have to overcome so much shame on the way to it.

Once a decision has been made to close one’s ears even in the face of the most thoroughly opposing argument, it is a sign of a strong character. Therefore, a random will to stupidity.

Disappointed, he says: “I looked for great people, but I always found only monkeys of their ideal.”

Disappointed says: “I listened to the echo and heard only praise.”

The thing clarified ceases to interest us. - What did the god mean when he gave the advice: “Know yourself!” Maybe it meant: “Stop being interested in yourself, become objective!” And Socrates? What about the “man of science”?

“Self-sufficient knowledge” is the last snare set by morality: with their help you can once again become completely entangled in it.

By our principles we want either to tyrannize our habits, or to justify them, or to pay tribute to them, or to express censure, or to hide them; It is very likely that two people with the same principles desire something completely different at the core.

The heart is bound, the mind is free. If you chain your heart tightly and keep it captive, you can give a lot of freedom to your mind - I said this once before. But they don’t believe me in this, assuming that they themselves don’t already know this.

The consequences of our actions grab us by the hair, completely disregarding the fact that we have “corrected” in the meantime.

A worm that has been stepped on begins to squirm. It's prudent. This reduces the likelihood that he will be stepped on again. In the language of morality: humility.

What? you are looking for? would you like to increase yourself tenfold, increase yourself a hundredfold? Are you looking for followers? Look for zeros!

That God learned Greek when he wanted to become a writer is a matter of great subtlety - as is the fact that he did not learn it better.

What's wrong is that I remain right! I'm too right. And whoever laughs best today will also laugh last.

What a person is begins to be revealed when his talent weakens - when he stops showing what he can. Talent is also an outfit: attire is also a way to hide.

To live alone, you must be an animal or a god, says Aristotle. The third case is missing: you have to be both - a philosopher.

We dislike someone else's vanity only when it offends our vanity.

These were steps for me, I rose above them - for this I had to walk along them. They thought that I wanted to sit on them to rest...

"I don't like this." - Why? - “I haven’t grown up to that.” - Has at least one person ever answered this way?

I do not trust all taxonomists and avoid them. The will to the system is a lack of honesty.

I want to not know much once and for all. Wisdom also sets boundaries for knowledge.

“I did it,” says my memory. “I couldn’t do it,” says my pride and remains adamant. Eventually memory gives way.

The belly is the reason that it is not so easy for a person to imagine himself as God.

It happens quite often that a criminal cannot handle his act - he belittles him and slanders him.

There is arrogance of kindness that has the appearance of malice.

There is innocence in lies, and it serves as a sign of strong faith in some thing.

There are times when we become like horses, we psychologists, and we fall into anxiety: we see our own wavering shadow in front of us. The psychologist must ignore himself in order to see at all.

Perhaps, in the tendency to allow oneself to be humiliated, to rob, to deceive, to exploit, the modesty of a certain God among people is manifested.

In the end, we love our own lust, not the object of it.

In a peaceful environment, a warlike person attacks himself.

In vengeance and love, a woman is more barbaric than a man.

In our time, the knower can easily feel like an animal transformation of a deity.

In your wild nature you have the best rest from your unnaturalness, from your spirituality...

There is not a trace of misanthropy in condescension, but that is precisely why there is too much contempt for people.

There is more importunity in praise than in blame.

The great eras of our lives come when we have the courage to rename our evil to our best.

An objection, a stupid prank, cheerful distrust, mockery are signs of health: everything unconditional belongs to the realm of pathology.

Around a hero everything becomes a tragedy, around a demigod everything becomes a drama of satyrs, and around God everything becomes - how? perhaps "peace"?

The will to conquer one affect, however, is ultimately only the will of another or many other affects.

Here is an artist, the kind I love, modest in his needs: he actually wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et circen...

Moving among scientists and artists, it is very easy to make a mistake in the opposite direction: often in a remarkable scientist we find a mediocre person, and in a mediocre artist we very often find an extremely remarkable person.

Everything that is done out of love is always done on the other side of good and evil.

“Where the tree of knowledge is, there is always paradise,” - this is what both the oldest and newest snakes say.

A person of genius is unbearable if he does not possess at least two more qualities: a sense of gratitude and cleanliness.

Even the concubinage is corrupted - by marriage.

Contentment even protects against colds. Has a woman who knows how to dress well ever caught a cold? - I assume it was a case that she was barely dressed.

We must repay for good and for evil, but why exactly to the person who did good or evil to us?

A soul that feels that it is loved, but does not love itself, reveals its scum: the lowest in it floats to the top.

If you train your conscience, then even when it bites you it will kiss us.

If a woman has masculine virtues, then you need to run away from her; if she does not have masculine virtues, then she runs away on her own.

If a woman displays scientific inclinations, then usually there is something wrong in her reproductive system. Already infertility predisposes one to a certain masculinity of taste; a man, if I may say so, is just a “sterile animal.”

If you have character, then you also have your typical survivals, which are constantly repeated.

If we have to retrain ourselves in relation to some person, then we sternly take out on him the inconvenience that he caused us.

There is an innocence of admiration: it is possessed by someone who has not yet thought that he too might someday be admired.

There is a hatred of lies and pretense, arising from sensitivity in matters of honor; there is the same hatred arising from cowardice, since lying is prohibited by the divine commandment. Too cowardly to lie...

A woman learns to hate to the extent that she forgets how to charm.

A woman is considered deep - why? because you can never reach the bottom of it. The woman is not even small.

And the most courageous of us only rarely has the courage to do what he actually knows...

From the military school of life: what doesn't kill me makes me stronger.

Are you one of those who watch as a spectator? Or who is involved? - Or who does not pay attention, walks away? The third question of conscience.

Out of love for humanity, we sometimes hug the first person we meet (because we cannot hug everyone): but this is exactly what we should not reveal to the first person we meet...

Having talent is not enough: you must also have your permission to do so, isn’t it, my friends?

Some peacocks hide their peacock tail from everyone - and call it their pride.

Some people, rejoicing in praise, thereby reveal only the courtesy of the heart - and precisely the opposite of the vanity of the mind.

Instinct. - When the house is on fire, they even forget about lunch. Yes - but they are making up for it in the ashes.

How little is needed for happiness! The sound of bagpipes. - Without music, life would be a delusion. The German even imagines God singing songs.

“How many times I had to bite my conscience! What good teeth she had! - And today? What is missing?" - question from the dentist.

How? Great person? - I still see only the actor of my own ideal.

How? Have you chosen virtue and sublime feelings, and at the same time look askance at the profits of unceremonious people? - But, having chosen virtue, they refuse to make “profits”... (At the front door to the anti-Semite)

How? Is man only a failure of God? Or is God just a human mistake?