One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of...
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking,...
You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
I love those who do not know how to live for today.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.
One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up...
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.
And granted that your imperative, "living according to Nature," means actually the same as "living according to life"--how could you do DIFFERENTLY? Why should you make a principle out of what you you...
Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.