Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.