For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

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

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.