"What does Europe owe to the Jews? Many things both good and bad, and one thing above all, at once the best and the worst: the grand moral style, the horror and the majesty of everlasting demands, ever…"

"Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss."

"A man who wants to do great things must know how to suffer."

"One should not talk much about oneself, when one has done nothing."

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."