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

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Beware of spitting against the wind!

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!