It is easy for people to lie in their words, but the grimace on their face during this time tells us the truth.
Talking a lot about yourself can be a way of hiding yourself.
Can the donkey be tragic? - to die under the weight that you can neither carry nor throw to the ground?... The situation of the philosopher.
The sage as the astronomer: - Until you feel the stars as something "above you", you do not yet have the eye of a knower.
Man created woman, but from what? From the side of her god - her "ideal"...
Music is a means of sweetening passions.
We don't believe in the stupidity of smart people. What a violation of human rights!
We do not hate man if we consider him inferior; but we hate it when we consider it equal or superior.
We become indifferent to something we have known as soon as we share it with others.
We adapt badly to life if we don't notice the hand that spares us and kills us.
Sometimes we proceed as in a dream: first we invent and imagine the person with whom we begin to communicate - and on the spot we forget everything.
The idea of suicide is a powerful means of consolation: with it, we bear the dark nights better.
Being alone with ourselves, we imagine everyone else to be simpler than us: thus, we take a break from those close to us.
Do we, the immoralists, cause damage to the virtues? As little as anarchists do to kings. But since they started shooting them, they sit even more firmly on their thrones. Morale: We must shoot morale.
The people is nature's detour to reach six, seven famous people. And to avoid them later.
As to what "authenticity" means, probably no one has yet clarified to a sufficient extent.
Are you a real person or just an actor? Substitute or replaced? - Finally, you could also be a fake actor... The second question of conscience.
Science puts all real women to shame. However, they feel as if they have gotten under their skin, or worse, under their dress and jewelry.
Our neighbor is not our neighbor, but our neighbor's neighbor, - this is what every people thinks.
To the strongest instinct, the tyrant in us, not only reason but also conscience is submitted.
Our vanity wants to believe that what we do best is also our hardest.
You don't have to be afraid of your deeds! You don't have to run away from them! - Reprimands of conscience are improper.
It is not the intensity, but the duration of the strongest sensations that makes great men.
It is not humanity, but the inability to be humane that prevents Christians today from burning us at the stake.
It wasn't the fact that you lied to me that shook me, but the fact that I already don't believe you anymore.
In general, there are no moral phenomena, there is only a moral interpretation of phenomena...
We must bid farewell to life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa, — more blessed than lovers.
Both sexes lie to each other - from this it follows that they, in essence, respect and love only themselves (or, if you prefer, only their own ideal). Thus, man wants a peaceful spirit from woman - but, nevertheless, woman, according to her nature, is a warrior like a cat, which, however much it learns to be peaceful, will never be so.
High expectations of sexual love and the shame caused by these expectations spoil all prospects for women.
One is looking for a midwife for his own thoughts, another, a man who can help him solve the problems generated by his thoughts: this is how a quality conversation is born.