God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us.