All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.