He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
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in reading orderIn individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Keep what you read, not just what you finished.
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