Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

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