Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.