"The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all is called 'life.'"

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man."

"One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired."

"The desire for peace, the most common desire of all, is a sign of weakness in a society."

"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."