Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.

Has anyone...any distinct notion of what poets of a stronger age understood by the word inspiration? ... There is an ecstasy such that the immese strain of it is sometimes relaxed by a flood of tears, along with which one's steps either rush or involuntarily lag, alternately. There is the feeling that one is completely out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and quiverings to the very toes... Everything happens quite involuntarily, as if in a tempestuous outburst of freedom, of absoluteness, of power and divinity.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.