Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.