The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.
Courage is the best slayer-courage which attacketh for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.
Either you reach a higher point today or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
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...
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine servic...
The heaviest burden: What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live...
Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age.
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved
All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
I am one thing, my writings are another.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.