I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.