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

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Fear is the mother of morality.