"The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more you must seduce the senses to it."

"The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their ruin: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments."

"What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? All that originates in weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that r…"

"The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously!"

"The greatest event of recent times — that 'God is dead,' that the belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable — is already beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe."