 Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? |
| To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. |
| Faith: not wanting to know what is true. |
| What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame. |
| What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. |
| Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. |
| All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. |
| There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. |
| Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. |
| Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? |
| If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. |
| Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. |
| One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. |
| When one has not had a good father, one must create one. |
| The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. |
| This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. |
| No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. |
| What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! |
| There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. |
| I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. |
