Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

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

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

I am not a man, I am dynamite!

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.