On every parable you ride to every truth.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.