The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

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.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

If you know the why, you can live any how.