Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

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.

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.