I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?