In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.