Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

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.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.