But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

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.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.