Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.