In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

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.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.