The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.