Love, too, has to be learned.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.