The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.