Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.