To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

Life without music is no life at all.