If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

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.

The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?