Remain true to the earth.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.