He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

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.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.