When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?