In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.