Mystical explanations are regarded as profound; the truth is that they do not even go the length of being superficial.
My wisdom hath accumulated long like a cloud, it becometh stiller and darker. So doeth all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
My concept of freedom. — The worth of a thing lies sometimes not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy—ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them!
Marriages which are contracted for love (so-called love-matches) have error for their father and need (necessity) for their mother.
Man is something that is to be surpassed.
Man is for woman a means: the purpose is always the child.
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman — a rope over an abyss.
Let us be on our guard against saying that death is contrary to life. The living being is only a species of dead being, and a very rare species.
Judgments, valuations with regard to life, for or against, can ultimately never be true: they only possess value as symptoms, they only come into consideration as symptoms, — in themselves such judgments are follies.
It is true we love life; not because we are used to life, but because we are used to loving.
