We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.