He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
The consequences of our actions take hold of us quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have "improved".
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The lie is a condition of life.
No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Life without music would be a mistake.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for thisâthat we may have and change our opinions.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
Great intellects are skeptical.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.
Success has always been a great liar.
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensationsâalways darker, emptier, simpler than these.
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.