All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.