German
Philosopher
(October 15,
1844 -
August 25,
1900)
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had."
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."
"The doer alone learneth."
"Fear is the mother of morality."
"The future influences the present just as much as the past."
"God is dead."
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"A man's maturity - consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play."
"Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments."
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. "
"That which does not kill you, makes you stronger."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance."
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
"We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics."
"What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do."
"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
