Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.