Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

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

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.