All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

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!

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.