And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.