The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.