How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.