"All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development."

"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win."

"We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

"It is "hard "enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."

""There "are no facts, only interpretations."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

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

"No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

"Man is the cruelest animal."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"

"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler."

"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is."

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."

"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

"There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth."

"I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."

"Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you."

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe."

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."

"All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"