The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).