Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

At heart I am a warrior.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

Beware of spitting against the wind!