Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

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Humility has the toughest hide.

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.