What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

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 henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.