Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

A friend whose hopes we cannot satisfy is a friend we would rather have as an enemy.