In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

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

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:—then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.