It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.