The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

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

Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.