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.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.