Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)