The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The English are the people of consummate cant.