The Geneology of Morals

Of necessity we remain strangers to ourselves, we understand ourselves not, in ourselves we are bound to be mistaken, for of us holds good to all eternity the motto, ‘Each one is the farthest away from himself’ – as far as ourselves are concerned we are not ‘knowers.’

We have never searched for ourselves – how should it then come to pass, that we should ever find ourselves?

man really becomes for the first time an interesting animal

(The masters' right of giving names goes so far that it is permissible to look upon language itself as the expression of the power of the masters: they say "this is that, and that," they seal finally every object and every event with a sound, and thereby at the same time take possession of it.)

morality which has actually existed and been actually lived