In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!