The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?