In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

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.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.