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German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

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When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Only sick music makes money today.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.

I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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