A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.