"Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen."

"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."

"It is the evening that questions thus from within me."

"There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol."

"The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture."

"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."

"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."

"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

"What does not destroy me makes me strong."

"Woman was God's second mistake."

"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."

"The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra."

"Excess of strength alone is proof of strength."

"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man."

"Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to exist"from, "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense"."

"Association with other people corrupts our character, especially when we have none."

"What knows he of love who has not been obliged to despise just what he loved."

"Around the hero, everything becomes a tragedy.Around God, everything becomes what? a world?"

"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

"All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"This world, the eternally imperfect, the eternal and imperfect image of a contradiction " an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator " that is what I once thought the world."

"There are no eternal facts as there are no absolute truths."

"Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?"

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

"So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's."

"He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness."

"If you know the why, you can live any how."

"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition."

"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 demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."

"I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No."

"Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

"Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all."

"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."

"Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable."

"O sky above me, you modest, glowing sky! O you, my happiness before sunrise! Day is coming: so let us part!"

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

"Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things."

"A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

"Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to attain: deny those good things, withdraw from them the applause of the populace and discourage the spread of them, make them once more the concealed chastities of solitary souls, and say: morality is something forbidden! Perhaps you will thus attract to your cause the sort of men who are only of any account, I mean the heroic. But then there must be something formidable in it, and not as hitherto something disgusting!"

"All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down."