History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

A married philosopher is a comic character.

...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently bold, subtle, malicious, southerly, superhealthy to confront that music and in an immortal fashion take revenge on it.

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!