The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

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

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.