I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

Your educators can only be your liberators.

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.