There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

Only with the ultimate knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are but the boundaries of man.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds.

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.

The Antichrist, Section 7

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.