I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down before us. A psychologist must look away from himself in order to see anything at all.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"