A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.