What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.