One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.
Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privil...
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong again and again - the reason being they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer.... Darwin forgot the mind (- that in Englis...
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
Music heals all forms of misery
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
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.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
What does not destroy me makes me strong.