Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.