Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.