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

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.