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Quotes by German Authors
"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."
"For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope."
"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
"I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing."
"Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself, think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."
"One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior."
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."
"We possess art lest we perish of the truth."
"You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!"
"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?"
"We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out."
"Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them."
"Zarathustra answered: "I love mankind."
"There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil."
"We are terrified by the idea of being terrified."
"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."
"A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow."
"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
"Paper is more patient than man."
"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
"O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!"
"I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men."
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
"Passionate-that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment."
"What does not destroy me makes me strong."
"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
"And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.Filth is at the bottom of their souls, and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!"
"The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise."
"Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability."
"All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness."
"Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all."
"Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours."
"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
"Only sick music makes money today."
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