I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

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.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.