Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!