Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.