If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.