Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?