I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.