When I aspired to the heights, I wanted to go under ... and you are the lightning for which I have waited.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And, when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
He whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster!
The “general welfare” is not the sphere of truth; for truth demands to be declared even if it is ugly & unethical.
When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Learning from one’s enemies is the best way towards loving them; for it makes us grateful to them.
Although the most acute judges of the witches, & even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistent. It is thus with all guilt.
Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?
I love him who makes his virtue his addiction & his catastrophe; for his virtue’s sake he wants to live on & to live no longer.
The noble soul has reverence for itself.
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner.
