Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.