» The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.
» In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
» For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
» Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
» In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
» The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
» How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
» The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
» I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.
» In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.