To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

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.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.