The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

I could dispense with nothing when I created the superman. His seed still carries all your evil and falsehood, your lies and yourignorance.