Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

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?

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

Become who you are!