Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.