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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.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
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.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
And 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.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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.