One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.