It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.