Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.
Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right – especially when one is right.
The final reward of the dead – to die no more.
Women’s modesty generally increases with their beauty.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we have done so.
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.
The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one’s strength, one’s skill and one’s swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one’s equals.
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.