Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.