What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

Anyone who despises himself will still respect himself as a despiser.

The sage as astronomer. — If you still experience the stars as something "over you," you still don't have the eyes of a knower.

It is some basic certainty which the noble soul has about itself, something which does not allow itself to be sought out or found or perhaps even to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.