If you know the why, you can live any how.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his purse, or his politics, or his social intercourse....
How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Ascetic: one who makes a necessity of virtue.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths.
I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes mas...
In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoev...
Without music, life would be a mistake.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.