What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

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

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!