I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.