This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.