I teach you the superman. Man is something to be surpassed. ----Also Sprach Zarathustra (prologue)
For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come. ----IV Die Begrüssung
[Man found a solitary existence tedious.] There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradise over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing,--he dominated them, and didn't even want to be an 'animal'. ----Der Antichrist, 48
Woman was God's second blunder. ---Der Antichrist
What I understand by 'philosopher': a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger. ----Ecce Homo, Die Unzeitgemässen
Morality is the herd instinct of the individual. ----Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft, III, 116
God is dead: but considering the state of the species Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.----III, 108
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. ----130
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! ----IV, 283
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ----Jenseits von Gut und Bðse, IV, 146