Existence begins in every instant.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.