Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.