Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.