Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

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.

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.