The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.