The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.