The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.