Thoughts are the shadows of our sentiments — always, however, obscurer, emptier, and simpler.
This world is the Will to Power – and nothing besides! And even ye yourselves are also this will to power – and nothing besides!
There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religions.
There is more sagacity in thy body than in thy best wisdom.
There is an innocence of admiration: it is possessed by him to whom it has not yet occurred that he himself may he admired some day.
There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.
There is a haughtiness of kindness which has the appearance of wickedness.
There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.
There are people who wish to make human life harder for no other reason than to be able afterwards to offer men their life-alleviating recipes their Christianity, for example.
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 very word “Christianity” is a misunderstanding; — in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
