Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.