The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.