Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is Truth?

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.