He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.