But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

The enormous expectation having to do with sexual love and the shame involved in this expectation degrades all a woman's perspectives from the start.

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.