We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!