Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Yes, life is a woman!

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.