"That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil."

"All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down."

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

"Art is the proper task of life."

"Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become "poisonous"."

"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."

"What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'."

"Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you."

"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

"Amor Fati – “Love Your Fate”, which is in fact your life."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

"Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."

"A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love."

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

"They muddy the water, to make it seem deep."

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."

"Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"

"Become who you are!"

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

"I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible."

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."

"The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls"

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."

"Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second."

"One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art."

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

"If you know the why, you can live any how."

"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."

"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

"...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive."

"Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."