From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.