- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.”
- “When you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
- Without music, life would be a mistake.”
- "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
- "In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play."
- "The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions."
- "No artist tolerates reality."
- "The most common lie is that which one lies to himself."
- "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
- "Love is not consolation. It is light."
- "A good writer not only speaks his own spirit but also that of his friends."
- "There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."
- "We have art in order not to die of the truth."
- "Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."
- "To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
- "Success has always been a great liar."
- That which does not kill me makes me stronger."
- When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
- Become who you are!"
- It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
- "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."
- "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
- "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
- "Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
- "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
- "The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
- "Truths are illusions we have forgotten are illusions."
- "All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
- "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had."
- "The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man."
- "All things are enchained with one another."
- "Whoever has a why can endure almost any how."
- "What we do in dreams, we also do when we are awake." "No one lies as much as the indignant do."
- "Living is the means by which life expresses itself."
- "Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
- "He who obeys does not listen to himself."
- "A thought comes when it will, not when I will."
- "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
- "Invisible threads are the strongest ties."
- "We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
- "Power is not a means; it is an end."
- "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- "There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
- "He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary."
- "The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
- "What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal."
- "Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves."
- "We have art in order not to die of the truth."
- "Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you."
- "Eternal recurrence is the heaviest burden."
- "Only great pain is the ultimate liberator of the spirit."
- "Against boredom, even the gods struggle in vain."
- "He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat."
- "There is no beautiful surface without a terrible depth."
- "The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."
- "The doer alone learneth."
- "What is the seal of freedom attained? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself."
- "Wisdom is a woman and loves only a warrior."
- "Man is the measure of all things, of the things they are, and of the things they are not."
- "The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
- "We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."
- "Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
- "There are no facts, only interpretations."
- "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
- "A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
- "Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
- "No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
- "The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
- "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
- "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
- "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."
- "Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
beefing
Basically whatever happens to irritate me. Probably quite trivial but then why not? After all, the First Admendment says I can (but then the new Supreme Court may change that...)
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