If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

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

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.