Most people are not seeking truth; they are searching for comfort in illusions.

All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not the truth.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.

Rather than cope with the unbearable loneliness of their condition men will continue to seek their shattered God, and for His sake they will love the very serpents that dwell among His ruins.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.