What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.