We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.