Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.