But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.