The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.