You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any