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

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.