All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.