In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.