He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

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

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.