To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.