I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.