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Woman was God's second mistake.

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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' ...more

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Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second:...more

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Among such persons are those women who transform themselves into just that function of a man that is but weakly developed in him, and then become his ...more

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

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A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything. Man shall be educated for war, and woman for t...more

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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth....more

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Man is the cruelest animal.

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I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

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Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

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Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other ...more

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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.