"With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.”

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

“No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.”

“The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.”

“Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.”

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

“Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.”

“Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.”

“A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.”