I teach you the superman -man is something to be surpassed.

Is a man merely a mistake of God, or is God a mistake of man

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself<.br> What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing that resistance is overcome.
Not contentedness but more power; not peace but war; not virtue but fitness.
The weak and the failures shall parish:
first principle of our love of man. And they shall even be given every possible assistance.
What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak:
Christianity
-THE ANTICHRIST

I do not wish to be a saint,
I would rather be a clown
-Ecce Homo

In all kinds of injury and loss
the lower and coarser soul is
better off than the nobler one....
In a lizard a lost finger is replaced
again; not so in Man.
-Beyond Good and Evil

Though the favorites of the gods die young,
they also live eternally in the company of gods.
-The Birth of Tragedy

For both art and life depend wholly on the laws of optics, on perspective and illusion; both, to be blunt, depend on the necessity of error.
-The Birth of Tragedy

My urge to hope where there was nothing left to hope for, all signs pointing unmistakably toward imminent ruin; my foolish prattle
-The Birth of Tragedy

And shall not I, by mightiest desire,
In living shape that precious form acquire?
-Faust

Men of philosophical disposition are known for their constant premonition that our everyday reality, too, is an illusion, hiding another, totally different kind of reality.
-The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music

it is difficult to believe that 2 times 2 is not 4; does that make it true? On the other hand, is it really so difficult simply to accept everything that one has been brought up on and that has gradually struck deep roots....Is that more difficult than to strike new paths, fighting the habitual, experiencing te insecurity of independence and the frequent wavering of one's feelings and even one's conscience, proceeding often without any consolation, but ever with the eternal goal of the true, the beautiful, and the good?
-On Ethics

...Faith does not offer the least support for a proof of objective truth...if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire...
-On Ethics

What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms--in short, a sum of human relations, which have been inhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now only matter as metal, no longer as coins... We still do not know where the urge for truth comes from; for as yet we have heard only of the obligation imposed by society that it should exist: to be truthful means using the customary metaphors--in moral terms: the obligation to lie according to a fixed convention, to lie herd-like in a style obligatory to all....

One of the things that may drive thinkers to despair is the recognition of the fact that the illogical is necessary for man and that out of the illogical comes much that is good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion and generally in everything that gives value to life, that it cannot be withdrawn without thereby injuring all these beautiful things. It is only the all-too-naive person who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one.

Uncanny insight seems to be constantly at war with a language that is outrageous, that overreaches and thus caricatures its subject, and that achieves the singular feat of being at once acrobatic and stilted.
-The Birth of Tragedy & Genealogy of Morals