Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?

I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has.