Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself