When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men.