You must be born for your physician, otherwise you are bound to perish because of your physician.

Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.

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!

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.