1Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
2There is a musician who, more than any other musician, is a master at finding the tones in the realm of suffering, depressed, and tortured souls, at giving language to every mute misery.
3My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati....Not merely to bare with what is necessary, still less conceal it...but to love it.
4The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
5The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception.
6Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
7There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
8The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
9Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
10God is Dead.
11Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
12Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.
13There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.