A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.