The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it