Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.