The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.