Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

The free man is a warrior.

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.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.