A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

Those people have no real interest in a science who only begin to get excited about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

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.