The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.