Man takker sin lærer dårlig ved alltid å forbli elev.

For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously!

Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in it.

Quanto de verdade suporta, quanto de verdade ousa um espírito?

Do not let yourself be deceived: great intellects are sceptical. Zarathustra is a sceptic. The strength, the freedom which proceed from intellectual power, from a superabundance of intellectual power, manifest themselves as scepticism

Toate aşa-zisele suflete frumoase au la bază un rău fiziologic.

I love him who does not want to have too many virtues. One virtue is more virtue than two, because it is more of a noose on which his catastrophe may hang.

Tenemos el arte para no morir de la verdad.

And while I shall keep silent about some points, I do not want to remain silent about my morality which says to me: Live in seclusion so that you can live for yourself. Live in ignorance about what seems most important to your age. Between yourself and today lay the skin of at least three centuries. And the clamor of today, the noise of wars and revolutions should be a mere murmur for you.

it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.