Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

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.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.