Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.