He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.