Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

God is dead.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Christianity is called the religion of pity.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that...

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Only sick music makes money today.

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you.

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?

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...

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.