The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

Energy wasted on negative ends.