We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Man is the cruelest animal.
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.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?
Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.