“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.”
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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.