Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of the best and the worst: the grand style in morality, the fearfulness and majesty of infinite demands, of infinite significations, the whole Romanticism and sublimity of moral questionableness - and consequently just the most attractive, ensnaring, and exquisite element in those iridescences and allurements to life, in the aftersheen of which the sky of our European culture, its evening sky, now glows - perhaps glows out.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.