Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value
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.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.
The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself.
We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit.
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.
In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
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...
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...
The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.