There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.