Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.