What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

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.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.