Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

The Gay Science, section 108

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.