The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.