But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.

Sometimes all you need to do to win clever people over to a principle is to present it in the form of a shocking paradox.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.