The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.