Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.