Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

Love brings to light the lofty and hidden characteristics of the lover--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it caneasily be deceptive with respect to what is normal in him.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.