There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.