What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.