And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.