But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to endure his ugly sight. For the sight of the ugly makes one bad and gloomy.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?