We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.