Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.