The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.