Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.