The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.