"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."

"Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life " and being successful."

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

"I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth."

"One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior."

"All history is the experimental refutation of the theory of the so-called moral order of things."

"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."

"Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty."

"The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward."

"Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception."

"You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you!You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

"To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious."

"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us."

"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."

"Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate."

"What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?"

"Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!"

"A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly."

"Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men."

"For truth to tell, 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 pen- that one must learn how to write."

"People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality."

"Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman."

"Art raises its head where creeds relax."

"Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"One in three all friends are:Brothers in distress,equals facing rivals,free men - facing death!"

"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god."

"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze."

"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."

"Moderation sees itself as beautiful, it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking."

"What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions - they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster."

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

"When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher."

"You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light."

"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."

"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."

"There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."

"If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the "Beyond " into nothingness " one has deprived life as such of its center of gravity. The great lie of personal immortality destroys all rationality, all naturalness of instinct, all that is salutary, all that is life-furthering."

"Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."

"The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them."

"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."

"The Christian church is an encyclopaedia of prehistoric cults and conceptions of the most diverse orgiin and that is why it is so capable of proselytising: it always could and it can still go wherever it pleases and it always found and it always finds something similar to itself to which it can adapt itself and gradually impose upon it a Christian meaning."