Zarathustra

"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome."

"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes."

"I love those who do not first look behind into the past before they look down at the abyss."

"Beware of those in whom the desire to punish is strong."

"Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has one solution: that is pregnancy."

"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."

"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

"I say unto you: one must have a chaos within oneself."

"The sound of laughter is the music of the spheres to those who think."

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"I love him who hath overflowing spirit and overflowing heart."

"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off."

"What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of great contempt."

"The wasteland grows: woe to him who harbors wastelands within!"

"All things are moral; nothing is true."

"Lift up your hearts, my brothers!"

"Whosoever climbeth on the highest mountains laugheth at all tragic plays."

"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."

"The good is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it."

"Out of love alone shall my contempt and my warning voice come forth!"

"I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers."

"Solitude is the virtue of the wild."

"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."

"The spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world."

"I would not know what the spirit of a lion could have to do in the land of the satisfied."

"Comfort and ease: these I despise."

"Art thou a slave? Then thou canst not be my friend."

"Do I counsel you to love your neighbors? Nay, I counsel you to love those farther off!"

"Verily, a polluted stream is man; one must be a sea to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure."