“if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.”
“If you know the why, you can live any how.”
“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. ”
“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”
“I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.”
“But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no desire to become any of these; it is by no means striving to imitate mankind! It is quite impervious to all our aesthetic and moral judgments! It has likewise no impulse to self-preservation or impulses of any kind; neither does it know any laws. Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress...”