Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

All truths are bloody truths to me.