I am a prelude to better players, O my brothers! An example! Follow my example!

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore particular, serving a specific purpose for their propagators or creators, and enforcing a certain regime that disciplines human beings for social life by narrowing our perspectives and limiting our horizons.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!