With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

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

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.