We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

How much beer is in German intelligence?

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.