Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.