Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.