Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.