Certitude drives people mad.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.