Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.