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.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.