It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.