We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
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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.
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 privilege of owning yourself.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
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.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
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