Zarathustra

"The body is a great intelligence, a plurality with one sense."

"Your self-love must be blessed, not cursed."

"He who despiseth himself, nevertheless esteemeth himself thereby, as a despiser."

"The creation of new values—that even the lion cannot yet accomplish."

"Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey."

"Life itself is the will to power."

"Everything goeth, everything returneth; eternally rolleth the wheel of existence."

"I love those who do not first look behind into the past."

"The worst enmity is coldness; no hatred is so bitter."

"Thou hast small eyes; therefore dost thou believe in small truths."

"Wilt thou go with me? My path requires companions and dares not walk alone."

"Thou little prudent one, consider thy action well; it is easier to make a decision than to bear its consequences."

"The greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours."

"Verily, even the worst deeds are not the worst. The most silent, coldest deeds are the worst."

"I teach you the Übermensch: he is this lightning, he is this madness!"

"There is nobility in labour, not shame."

"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 earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small."

"I love those who do not first look behind them, but look ahead, and thus perish and overcome."

"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

"Do not pity thy neighbor! Rather help him, support him, and improve him."

"The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do spirits that are prevented from changing their opinions."

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

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

"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains merely a student."

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

"Solitude is the virtue of the wild and of gods alike."

"Beware of those for whom the sight of suffering ennobles the heart."