How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.