What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.