Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.