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

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.