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

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.