Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
-Einstein
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.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-Nietzsche
I am at two with nature.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
-Woody Allen
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
-Socrates
No human thing is of serious importance.
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
-Plato
