(October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900)
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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..
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Thank you Friedrich, for some amazing wisdom.
I downloaded a collection of quotes from the internet, and selected some that I either resonate with, or am challenged by, or need to seriously reflect further on. That doesn't mean that I agree or disagree with any or all of them. I like that I don't have to agree or disagree in order to gain from someone's wisdom.
