When one has one’s wherefore of life, one gets along with almost every how.
What does not kill me, strengthens me.
The wisest men in all ages have judged similarly with regard to life: it is good for nothing.
Without music life would be a mistake.
When some one does away with himself, he does the noblest thing in the world; by so doing he has almost entitled himself to live…
We think woman deep — why? because we never find any bottom in her. Woman is not even shallow.
We recover best from our unnaturalness, from our spirituality, in our savage moods…
We have already got beyond what we can express in words. In all speaking there is an inkling of contempt.
To the existence of art, to the existence of any aesthetic activity or perception whatsoever, a preliminary psychological condition is indispensable, namely, ecstasy.
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
The trodden worm turns itself. That is sagacious. It thereby lessens the probability of being again trodden on. In the language of morality: submissiveness.
Only thoughts won by walking are valuable.
