About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.