He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.