My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

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