Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will"...
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting th...
One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
The lie is a condition of life.
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.