He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

Man, a hybrid of plant and ghost.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.