How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.
They’re so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things: – then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!
Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.
Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon fall off.
I have forgotten my umbrella.
To find everything profound – that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one’s eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Man is a rope, tied between beast and Superman – a rope over an abyss.
My genius is in my nostrils.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
The pure soul is a pure lie.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.