He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
This world is the Will to Power – and nothing besides! And even ye yourselves are also this will to power – and nothing besides!
There are many kinds of eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes — therefore there must be many kinds of “truths,” and consequently there can be no truth.
The church is precisely that against which Jesus inveighed – and against which He taught His disciples to fight.
Perhaps I know best why man is the only animal that laughs: he alone suffers so excruciatingly that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to contemn!
Facts are precisely what is lacking, all that exists consists of interpretations.
Extreme positions are not relieved by more moderate ones, but by extreme opposite positions.
Art is with us in order that we may not perish through truth.
Art is the only task of life.