Art is the proper task of life.
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.