The best Ecce homo quotes

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would include even a Kant, not to speak of academic "ruminants" and other professors of philosophy...

Resentment, born of weakness, harms no one more than the weak person himself.

I am no man, I am dynamite.

What does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Out of my will to health and to life I made my philosophy.

My form of retaliation consists in this: as soon as possible to set a piece of cleverness at the heels of an act of stupidity.

In proportion as an ideal world has been falsely assumed, reality has been robbed of its value, its meaning, and its truthfulness.

My formula for greatness in a human being is … that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, …but love it.

I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus, and I would prefer to be even a satyr than a saint.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.