Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.