The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.