There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

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

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.