When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.