In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.