He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.