The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.