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

Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.