Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

The arrogance that accompanies merit offends us even more than the arrogance of people who are lacking in merit: since merit itself offends us.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.