It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.