In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

No artist tolerates reality.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.