It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.