You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

The maturity of man that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away.

One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain.

He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.

Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up.