Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

Nobody is so constituted as to be able to live everywhere and anywhere; and he who has great duties to perform, which lay claim toall his strength, has, in this respect, a very limited choice. The influence of climate upon the bodily functionsextends so far, that a blunder in the choice of locality and climate is able not only to alienate a man from his actual duty, but also to withhold it from him altogether, so that he never even comes face to face with it.