Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.