"

Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a cultu...more

"

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of my...more

"

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived...more

"

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of riche...more

"

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?Life i...more

"

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also ther...more

"

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that somethi...more

"

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescripti...more

"

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...more

"

What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved

"

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

"

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

"

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

"

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth ...more

"

If, in all that you wish to do, you begin by asking yourself: am I certain that I would wish to do this an infinite number of times? This should be fo...more