He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.