I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.