I am almost equal to a shadow.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

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.

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

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.