What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.