We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Įxtreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.įanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.įor art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.įor the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. ‘Evil men have no songs.’ How is it that the Russians have songs?Įxistence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.Įxperience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.Īnyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.Īrrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.Īrt is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.Īt times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.īefore the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.īehind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.īlessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.Ĭharacter is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.Ĭonvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.ĭo whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.ĭoes wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?Įgoism is the very essence of a noble soul.Įvery church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.Įvery man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. It is thus with all guilt.Īn artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.Īnd if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.Īnd we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.Īll credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.Īll sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.Īll things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.Īll truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.Īll truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?Īlthough the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.Ī friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.Ī good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.Ī great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.Ī pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.Ī subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.Ī woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.Īdmiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.Īfter coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.Īh, women.
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