Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.