You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

My genius is in my nostrils.