Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

The Antichrist, Section 7

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.