No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.