That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Love is not consolation. It is light.
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.
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...
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along...
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.