Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

The superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the superman is to be the meaning of the earth! I beseech you, my brothers, be true to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! They are poisoners, whether they know it or not.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.