One has to know the size of one's stomach.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.