"What does your conscience say? 'You should become the person you are.'"

"Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren't even shallow."

"Only sick people have moral systems."

"Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting."

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"