There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.

As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.