He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?