If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.