For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

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.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

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

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.