Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.