You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.