Absinthe makes the hearth glow, Father

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Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

It is by invisible hands that we are bent and tortured worst.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Wisdom sets limits to knowledge too.

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.

Success has always been a great liar.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

God is dead.

What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

God is dead.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Man is something to be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?

Has a woman who knew herself to be well dressed ever caught a cold?

To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Has a woman who knew herself to be well dressed ever caught a cold?

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

God is dead.

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

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

It is by invisible hands that we are bent and tortured worst.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Swallow your poison, for you need it badly.

Woman was God's second mistake.

God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him.

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Your pride can't hurt me-- I have no beliefs!

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you

What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.