The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

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

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.