Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.