The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.