The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

The free man is a warrior.

If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

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

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.