Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

The Gay Science, section 108

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.