If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.