"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"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."

"In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged."

"The visionary is a realist in disguise."

"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…"