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.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.