Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.