Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.