Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.