No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.
Necessity is not an established fact but an interpretation.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule.
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along...
Every word is a prejudice.
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Excess of strength alone is proof of strength
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Fear is the mother of morality.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever attempts it, even with the best right, but without being OBLIGED to do so, proves that he is probably...
When thou goest to woman take thy whip.