Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.