Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.

There are no facts, only interpretations.