He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

The Antichrist, Section 7

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.