We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.