All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

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