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We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

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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.

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It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

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Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

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This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

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There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

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Without music, life would be a mistake.

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We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

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In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

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Plato was a bore.

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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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