But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

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.

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself.