Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.