A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.