"In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged."

"Man is the cruelest animal."

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated into vice."

"The most dangerous thing one can do is to be right when the world is wrong."