Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Everything matters. Nothing's important.
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
There's no defense against stupidity.
Invisible threads are the strongest ties.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
The real question is: How much truth can I stand?
The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
If you know the why, you can live any how.
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
