"Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."

"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 doer alone learneth."

"Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"Examine the lives of the best and more fruitful men and peoples, and ask yourselves whether a tree, if it is to grow proudly into the sky, can do without bad weather and storms: whether unkindness and opposition from without, whether some sort of hatred, envy, obstinacy, mistrust, severity, greed and violence do not belong to the favouring circumstances without which a great increase even in virtue is hardly possible. The poison which destroys the weaker nature strengthens the stronger " and he does not call it poison, either."

"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul."

"Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion."

"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."

"Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order."

"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"I have forgotten my umbrella."

"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."

"One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy."

"Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver."

"We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion on us."

"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

"It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it."

"In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep."

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."

"When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed."

"Sometimes, you have to love beyond yourself! And that's how you learn to love! That's why you had to drink the bitter glass of your love."

"Convictions are prisons."

"The lie is a condition of life."

"The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises."

"If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved."

"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."

"Amor Fati " "Love Your Fate, which is in fact your life."

"Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realized joy could be."

"Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies."

"The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved."

"There are so many futures still to dawn!"

"Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up."

"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."

"Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper."

"Anarchists are mouthpieces of a declining stratum of society; when they work themselves into a state of righteous indignation demanding 'rights', 'justice', 'equal rights', they are just acting under the pressure of their own lack of culture, which has no way of grasping why they really suffer, or what they lack in life."

"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes."

"For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing."

"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."

"As if a round apple presented itself to my hand, a ripe, golden apple with a soft, cool, velvety skin - thus the world presented itself to me - as if a tree nodded to me, a wide-branching, strong-willed tree, bent for reclining and as a footstool for the way-weary: thus the world stood upon my headland - as if tender hands brought me a casket - a casket open for the delight of modest, adoring eyes: thus the world presented himself before me today - not so enigmatic as to frighten away human love, not so explicit as to put to sleep human wisdom - a good, human thing was the world to me today, this world of which so many evil things are said!"

"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 master of this crisis, is a question of his strength."

"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired."

"What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness."

"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."