There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.