How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

I teach you the Overman. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? ... The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come to plant the seed to his highest hope.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.