The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

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

Sleep is no mean art.

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.