Quotes Archive

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."

"You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

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

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

"Hell is other people."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"

"What does not kill me makes me stronger."

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss."

"What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devalue themselves. The goal is lacking; the answer is lacking to our 'Why?'"

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name."

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding."

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions."

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

"The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."