Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.