"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will"
"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist"
"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant"
"In music the passions enjoy themselves"
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad"
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either"
"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common"
"There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice"
"There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance"
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself"
"The doer alone learneth"
"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition"
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil"
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He"
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness"
"The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities"
"There are no facts, only interpretations"
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths"
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal"
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly"
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude"
"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule"
"Faith: not wanting to know what is true"
"There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude"
"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter"
"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal"
"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last"
"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good"
"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow"
"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets"
"Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?"
"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind"
"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross"
"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything"
"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw"
"Success has always been a great liar"
"Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent"
"The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god"
"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""
"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species"
"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters"
"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies"
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings"
"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow"
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation"
"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love"
"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man"
