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

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, how much pain, how much torture it endures and knows how to transform to its advantage."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privil…"

"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."

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."