1. “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
2. “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
3. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
4. “When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
5. “The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”
6. “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
7. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
8. “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
9. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
10. “There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
11. “You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
12. “The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
13. “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
14. “Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.”
15. “Success has always been a great liar.”
16. “Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
17. “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
18. “The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred ‘No’ even to duty — for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.”
19. “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
20. “The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.”
21. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
22. “One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence; especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.”
23. “To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
24. “Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.”
25. “Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.”
26. “Every great philosophy so far has been the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.”
27. “It is always consoling to think of suicide in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
28. “The secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerosly!”
29. “No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
30. “When one has not had a good father, one must create one.”
31. “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.”
32. “Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
33. “Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings-always darker, emptier and simpler.”
34. “There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.”
35. “The true man wants two things; danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
36. “Knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion.”
37. “One loves ultimately one’s desires, not the thing desired.”
38. “It is in our wild nature that we best recover from our un-nature, our spirituality.”
39. “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
40. “Do not allow yourselves to be deceived; Great Minds are Skeptical.”
41. “Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.”
42. “Resentment, born of weakness, harms no one more than the weak person himself.”
43. “The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”
44. “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
45. “That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
46. “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
47. “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”
48. “The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
49. “It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The “good” are too cowardly to do it.”
50. “There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
51. “Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.”
52. “The insatiable will always finds a way to detain its creatures in life and compel them to live on, by means of an illusion spread over things.”
53. “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.”
54. “It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”
55. “A man’s maturity; that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.”
56. “The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.”
57. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct them to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
58. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
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59. “God is a thought which makes crooked all that is straight.”
60. “The thought of suicide is a great consolation; by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night.”
61. “One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
62. “Possessions are generally diminished by possession.”
63. “In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.”
64. “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
65. “A few hours’ mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures.”
66. “He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.”
67. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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68. “There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”
69. “Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
70. “We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
71. “Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”
72. “There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”
73. “Amazingly, the most obvious question fails to occur to our scholars what is their work, their hurry, their painful frenzy supposed to be for?”
74. “Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.”
75. “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
76. “Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness.”
77. “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”
78. “In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
79. “Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”
80. “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truths than lies.”
81. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
82. “Sensuality often hastens the growth of love so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.”
83. “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
