It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the d...
Love, too, has to be learned.
I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for i...
Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.
The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.
Wherever I found a living creature there I found the will to power.
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and...
A thought comes when it will, not when I will.
Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, Hel...
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.