We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.