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

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.