Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.