He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

Whether we immoralists do any harm to virtue?-Just as little as anarchists do to princes. It is only because they have been shot at that they once again sit securely on their thrones. Moral: we must shoot at morals.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.