I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

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

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.