Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.