God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.