"What is good? — All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? — All t…"

"The weak and ill-constituted shall perish: first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help them to do so."

"I call an animal, a species, an individual depraved when it loses its instincts, when it chooses, when it prefers wha…"

"Pity on the whole thwarts the law of evolution, which is the law of selection."

"The very word 'Christianity' is a misunderstanding--at bottom there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross."

"These smug ones [The Philistines] now once and for all sought to escape from the yoke of these dubious classics and t…"

"“I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.” These words are…"

"Nobody, however, is more disliked by [the Culture-Philistine] than the man who regards him as a Philistine, and tells…"

"[The Philistine] opposed the restless creative spirit that animates the artist, by means of a certain smug ease—the e…"

"[The Philistines] only devised the notion of an epigone-age in order to secure peace for themselves, and to be able t…"