My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

The pure soul is a pure lie.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.