Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.