What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!