The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

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!

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.