"Morality, insofar as it condemns for its own sake, and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity – an idios…"

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"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."

"There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause."