Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.