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.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

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!

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

The Antichrist, Section 7

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.