All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.