Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.