We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Was that life? Well then, once more!

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!