“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

“Alas, I have begun my loneliest walk. But whoever is of my kind, cannot escape such an hour, the hour which says to him, 'Only now are you going your way to greatness. Peak and abyss, they are now joined together, for all things are baptized in a well of eternity, and lie beyond good and evil.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ”

“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight. ”

“All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.”

“As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.”

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”