Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.