Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.