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.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.