Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

It follows that some people need open enemies if they are to rise to the level of their own virtue, virility, and cheerfulness.

The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick.

The sublime man has the highest value, even when he is most delicate and fragile, because an abundance of very difficult and rare things have been bred and united in him.

My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes indiscriminately: it does not like to say Yes;better to say No, but best of all to say nothing.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others.