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

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.