Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.