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

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.