When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.