The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.