In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

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!

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.