People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.