We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
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.
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.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Love, too, has to be learned.
I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.
Everything matters. Nothing's important.
We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?
No artist tolerates reality.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.