In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.