Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.