And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.