He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.