Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

The Antichrist, Section 7

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.