Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.