Zarathustra

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil."

"I would believe only in a God who could dance."

"This is my way; where is yours? Thus I answered those who asked me for the way."

"We have art lest we perish from the truth."

"I teach you beyond-man; what have you done with him?"

"The greatest events and thoughts are the longest in coming to be heard."

"Let life be your name for God."

"Granting that you are right, am I therefore wrong?"

"One pays heavily for immortality; one has to die several times whilst still in life."

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

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

"Many too many are born; for the superfluous the state was invented."

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

"Not your sin—your self-satisfaction crieth unto heaven!"

"I am not of the stuff of which religious founders are made."

"Who has not sacrificed health to the idol, 'reputation'?"

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"Thou speakest of love? Even of that thou hast only the virtue that is suited to slaves."

"What good is a life that does not live dangerously?"

"The earth became small, and on it hopped the last man."

"I say unto you: one must have still chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

"There are many ways to be alone but only one way to be lonely."

"The sick are the greatest danger to the healthy."

"I teach you the meaning of the earth, and to despise all the world-weary talk."

"Thou hast small eyes: therefore thou lookest for small happiness."

"Every creator has a madness which springs from the womb of the world."

"My children, the heart is yet unconquered, the sense yet unconquered!"

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"Power is where life springs forth."

"He who can no longer love must pass away."