"The higher men are distinguished from the lower by their fearlessness and their readiness to challenge the highest values."

"All great things perish through themselves, through an act of self-sublimation: thus perishes the law of morality."

"The Jews are the most remarkable nation of world history because, faced with the question of being or not being, they preferred, with a perfectly uncanny conviction, being at any price."

"Love to one only is a barbarity, for it is exercised at the expense of all others. Love to God also!"

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."