The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

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.

I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

On every parable you ride to every truth.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.