Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.