"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob"
"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters"
"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms"
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger"
"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book"
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking"
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth"
"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values"
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris"
"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt"
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands"
"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it"
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"
"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't"
"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh"
"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star"
"Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend"
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation"
"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer"
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory"
"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience"
"Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances"
"Without music, life would be a mistake"
"Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins"
"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule"
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?"
"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule"
"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth"
"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live"
"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement"
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one"
"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value"
"There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day"
