When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.