The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength.