Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.
I will believe in the Redeemer when the Christians look a little more redeemed.
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration.
If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable.
Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest.
The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.
The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
This world is the will to power and nothing besides!
Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.
The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.
Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.
You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.
The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.
New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.