I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.