"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Art is the proper task of life.
More Friedrich Nietzsche quotes
"When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil th...
"We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
"In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and th...
"The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life toli...
"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
"The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.
"All good things are powerful stimulants to life, even a good book written against life.
"The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretati...
"What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived...
"Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of riche...
"You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life i...
"It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also ther...
"Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that somethi...
"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescripti...