Man is the cruelest animal.

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.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.