Zarathustra

"The will to power is the will to life itself."

"Love is not a virtue, it is a practice."

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

"A great man? I always see merely the actor of his own ideal."

"The creator must seek filth and decay, that he may find causes of life."

"All that is deep loves the mask."

"From life's school of war: What does not destroy me makes me stronger."

"The worst enmity is coldness and courtesy."

"Virtue is not a means to something good, it IS the good."

"Art is born when the human being articulates his yearning for something beyond himself."

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

"I say unto you: one must have chaos within oneself to be capable of birth."

"If thou hast a why for life, thou canst bear with almost any how."

"Better to perish than to preserve yourself by means you despise."

"The higher man may sacrifice himself for others, but he must not become their slave."

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

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger."

"Beware of small men who seek revenge."

"A man who is most alive is one who wills hardest."

"The creator seeks those who can follow him into the abyss."

"I am not a light. I am not even a fire. I am only a coal of a fire."

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more completely than the passion of resentment."

"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the less you are occupied."

"I teach you not the virtue but the strength of which men have always dreamed."

"A man falls in love through his imagination."

"The ultimate truth of existence is that it is your responsibility."

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too."

"Become who you are."

"The most powerful and longest-enduring revenge is to advance oneself beyond one's enemies."

"I teach you the Übermensch: he is this sea; in him can your great contempt go under."