The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

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

Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

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.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.