'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.