Philosopher

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Secara umum ada alasan yang baik untuk menganggap bahwa dalam beberapa hal para dewa dapat memperoleh manfaat dari instruksi kita sebagai manusia. Kita manusia - lebih manusiawi.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Orang harus tetap memiliki kekacauan dalam dirinya, untuk dapat melahirkan bintang yang menari.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Cinta adalah keadaan di mana seorang pria melihat sesuatu dengan sangat jelas.

Mengerjakan hal-hal hebat itu sulit, tapi memerintahkan hal-hal hebat lebih sulit lagi.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.