That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.