Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

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

One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue.

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.