There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.