On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.