Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!