To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The Antichrist, Section 7