Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.