There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.