But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.