The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.