Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
The doer alone learneth.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
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.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
