To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.