We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.