New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

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.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.