Your deepest philosophy is revealed not in what you believe, but in what you do when no one is watching.

Friendship between two honest people contains more fire than most marriages ever will.

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

- Beyond Good and Evil

A mind on fire needs no audience. But the world watches anyway.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

- Daybreak

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

- Beyond Good and Evil

There is no greater arrogance than telling yourself what you can and cannot become.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his blood.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

- Human, All Too Human

The most dangerous chain is the one you choose yourself. The second most is the one you call tradition.

Self-pity is the lullaby the defeated sing to themselves. Stop singing it.

They will call you intense. They mean you make them feel the weight of their own mediocrity.

Creation is an act of violence against what exists. Every new idea is an insult to the old world.

The mediocre ask for consensus. The great ask for a second opinion, then ignore both.

The truth does not care about your comfort. That is precisely why it is the truth.

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

- Beyond Good and Evil

Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what burns in you. The world needs people who are on fire.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

If your philosophy doesn't make someone uncomfortable, you haven't thought hard enough.

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

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Self-knowledge is not a gift. It is a wound that never fully heals.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

- Beyond Good and Evil

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

- Daybreak

You cannot be both liked by everyone and honest with anyone. Choose early.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

- Beyond Good and Evil

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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

- Beyond Good and Evil

A mind on fire needs no audience. But the world watches anyway.

Authenticity is not a feeling. It is the courage to be despised for what you actually are.