A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

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

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.