Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Master-morality and Slave-morality.

A married philosopher is a comic character.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.