Without music, life would be a mistake.
In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play.
The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.
In revenge and in love, woman is more barbaric than man.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, and simpler.
Art is the proper task of life.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
What does your conscience say? — ‘You should become the person you are.’
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.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions – as attempts to find out something.
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another.
There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
Man is the cruelest animal.
When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
In truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Without forgetting, it is quite impossible to live at all.
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
The doer alone learneth.
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Sleep, memory of reality!
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
It is my ambition to make your life a nightmare.
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