If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how

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

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Without music life would be a mistake.