“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
“When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.”
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them”
“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.”
“It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.”
“Tis senseless to the highest degree to think of establishing an alliance among those that nature her self has divided, by an inconciliable disagreement. Beside, that a foolish peace is much more destructive than a bloody war”
“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.”
“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth”
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist”
“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”
“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.”
“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”
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame, how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.”
“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
“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.”
“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
“Man is the cruelest animal.”
“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.”
“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.”