Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.