There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Man must become better and more evil.

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.