Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

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?

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.