Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it