The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

Yes, life is a woman!

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.