Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.