We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"