The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

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.