Zarathustra

"All good things approach their goal crookedly."

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

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

"From your eyes a great soul looks forth: that delights me."

"Out of love, one should desire to suffer; out of enmity, one should desire to harm."

"Beware of the tarantulas! And beware of all those who speak of the desire for vengeance!"

"The best thing is to end when you are still having success."

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

"The most merciful thing in the world is the ability not to understand too much."

"For life itself is the will to power."

"I call him false who speaks of popular rights and of the rabble as if they were the end in themselves."

"The man of knowledge must be able to love his enemies and hate his friends."

"It is terrible to be alone! but it is not lonely to be alone."

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

"One must have grown tired of the old virtues to be capable of believing in new ones."

"The creators are hard and merciless and egoistical, they are immoral."

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

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

"When you go to woman, forget not the whip."

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

"I love him who works and invents, that he may build the house of the Übermensch and prepare for it the earth."

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

"All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle."

"I say: blessed are the contentious, for they shall inherit the earth."

"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that is to be surpassed."

"Dead are all the gods: now do we desire the Übermensch to live."

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

"I love those who do not first look behind them, under them, but look sideways as enemies and deciders."

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

"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Übermensch—a rope over an abyss."