Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.