The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?