'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)