Art of Wisdom

“The higher you rise, the smaller you appear to those who do not know how to fly.”

“He who realizes wanders among men as among animals.”

“The one who loved her the most, the one who was most fond of her, is now the one who has lost her the most.”

“Remember! You are who you choose to be.”

“A man is not worthy of love and respect just because he is a man, love and respect are deserved.”

“There are two ways to save you from suffering: a quick death or a long love.”

“Can an omniscient God, a God whose purpose is not understood by his creatures, be the God of goodness?”

“First you must build yourself, with a sturdy body and a sturdy spirit.”

“Behind every word of morality and virtue, I look for dishonesty.”

“Is it fear you need to do the right thing? Do you need to be threatened to be good?”

“Man is like a tree, the higher and brighter he wants to go, the more he takes root. Down to the ground, down to the darkness, to the depths, to evil.”

“Man is a means to a woman. The goal is always the child. But what is woman to man?”

“You want to enter into such a system that man has to become a wheel or remain under the wheels.”

“Hope prolongs torture.”

“Religion is a riffraff business; when I touch a religious person, I have to wash my hands afterward.”

“I dislike the soft-hearted, those who are happy in mercy; they lack shame too much.”

“Only by acting like a man can a man bring out the woman in a woman.”

“The superfluous man is born: the state was created for the superfluous.”

“Beliefs are more dangerous as enemies of truth than lies.”

“A man is not ashamed of having dirty thoughts; he is ashamed of the possibility that someone else may know his dirty thoughts.”

“As long as they praise you, don't think you are following your own path; you are following the path of others.”

“Nothing human is worth taking seriously.”

“Look at these men; you can see in their eyes that there is nothing better in the world than sleeping with a woman.”

“Deep-thinking people behave like comedians in their relationships with others. Because they always have to pretend to be superficial in order to be understood.”

“When making a marriage, we should ask ourselves this question: Do you believe that you will enjoy a conversation with this person for the long road to old age?”

“If you cannot control yourself, someone else will control you. This is the nature of living beings.”

“Let me give you this advice: Happiness that comes with someone else will go with someone else.”

“Snakes that do not change their skin are doomed to die. The same applies to minds that do not change their thoughts.”

“He who fights the beast must be careful that he does not become a beast himself. If you stare into the abyss for too long, the abyss will stare back.”

“The devil, who is so often mentioned in the holy books, is nothing but a bigot who gives you moral lessons in the real world.”

“Kill a cockroach and you are a hero, kill a butterfly and you are a devil. Morality has aesthetic standards.”

“Even the gods are helpless in the face of stupidity.”

“You have to deal with it yourself, because it's your life at stake.”

“That's what's unforgivable about you. You have all the power, but you refuse to sign your name.

“Since I stopped searching and chasing, I've learned to find.”

“The reason we feel so comfortable and pleasant when we are alone with nature is that nature has no opinion of us.”

“Cursing is a pleasure, for all miserable creatures, a small intoxication of power.”

“Judge not,” they say, but they send everything in their path to hell. By making God judge, they judge themselves; by glorifying God, they glorify themselves.”

“Expecting everyone to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”

“Everyone wants to bandage your wounds, but no one wants to bleed with you.”

“Everything starts and ends with you. Just be courageous. Don't run out, don't consume, don't make me consume the love of life in you. Either you are the solution or you are helpless.”

“Making a choice in an ignorant society is as foolish as asking an illiterate man which book to read.”

“Show your piety to God, I need your humanity.”

“You call yourself free? I'd like to hear what you think rules you.”

“People who find their daily life too empty and monotonous easily become religious.”

“If happiness depends on believing oneself to be free from sin, the condition is not that one is a sinner, but that one feels oneself to be a sinner.”

“Below the waist is the reason why man does not easily think of himself as God.”

“I am teaching you the transcendent. Man is something to be transcended. What have you done to transcend him?”

“A virtue must be of our own invention; it must come from our own defense and need. Otherwise virtue is a danger in every sense.”

“Faith in authority is the source of conscience; that is, conscience is not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.”

“The most humane act is to prevent a person from being put to shame.”

“A person who wants to learn to fly must first learn to walk, run, climb and dance; flying is not learned by flying.”

“In the end, one does not love what one desires, but what one desires.”

“People in herds have no sense of values. They receive a package of truth from their family and society and live their whole lives as cogs in a wheel, never questioning them.”

“Life itself forces us to set values, and when we set values, life makes its own assessment of us.”

“Visiting a mental hospital shows how empty faith is.”

“God has a hell too. It is his love for human beings.”

“It is horrible to be alone with your eyes open among those who sleep oblivious to everything.”

“Those who don't hear the sound of music think those who dance are crazy.”

“Your soul will die before your body: fear nothing anymore.”

“He who wants to give birth to a dancing star must first experience great upheavals and chaos within himself.”

“If you love the sea, love its waves.”

“Yes, madness has been taken so far that life itself is felt as punishment.”

“To transcend oneself and find peace in this life is the highest goal of life.”

“The rich have left the poor with nothing but God.”

“Opposing views are not thought through, they are simply hated.”

“The strong are naturally inclined to separate, the weak to unite.”

“If you are ashamed of yourself in one way or another, you are not yet one of us.”

“A little thought is the best medicine against all diseases of the soul.”

“The warrior who lives in peaceful conditions attacks himself.”

“He who has a reason to live can endure any kind of hardship.”

“You want to move forward? Get out of your own way.”

“In a world where there is no truth, only becoming, man has to create himself.”

“Fear a person when he prefers to be wise rather than sorry. Because what he says can hurt.”

“Man matures only when he rediscovers the seriousness of the games he played as a child.”

“If a country talks more about politics than literature and art, it is a third-class country.”