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!

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.