What we experience in dreams, provided we experience it often, pertains at last just as much to the general belonging of our soul as anything “actually” experienced; by virtue thereof we are richer or poorer.
What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.
What is happiness? — The feeling that power in creases, that a resistance is overcome.
What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.
What is good? — All that increases the feeling of power, will to power, power itself, in man.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness.
What actually arouses indignation over suffering is not the suffering itself, but the senselessness of suffering.
Weariness, which seekth to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all gods and backworlds.
We think woman deep — why? because we never find any bottom in her. Woman is not even shallow.
We sometimes remain faithful to a cause merely because its opponents never cease to be insipid.
We recover best from our unnaturalness, from our spirituality, in our savage moods…
