"I fear that we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar."

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

"The thought of suicide is a strong consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night."

"I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up…"

"What does Europe owe to the Jews? Many things both good and bad, and one thing above all, at once the best and the worst: the grand moral style, the horror and the majesty of everlasting demands, ever…"