Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.