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

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.