Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

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

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Fear is the mother of morality.