Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.