Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

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.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.