Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

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

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

All truths are bloody truths to me.