Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.