I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Thou seekest disciples? Then thou seekest ciphers.