I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.