Zarathustra

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

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

"I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself, and thus perishes."

"A little poison now and then makes pleasant dreams."

"Ye have made your way from worm to man, and much within you is still worm."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die."

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

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

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

"The teacher's virtue is modest; and his science says: 'Knowledge is virtue.'"

"I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and gives none back."

"Thou goest to women? Do not forget thy whip."

"Many die too late and some die too early. Strange soundeth the precept: Die at the right time!"

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

"Companion, I love thee; but perhaps thou art to me not of the right kind."

"It is terrible to die of thirst at sea! Must ye indeed drink the salt water?"

"What doth the herd-animal know of the loneliness of him who is high?"

"The good and just would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue."

"Suffering and incapacity—let these be the reason for humility!"

"Wilt thou go with me? My way takes seven years, and at the end thou wilt know nothing more than at the beginning."

"Give unto me, I pray thee, that which thou canst not give unto me!"

"He who can command himself is obeyed; but it requireth obedience to oneself first."

"The preachers of equality will I not hear: it woundeth mine ears to hear them prate."

"Love is the danger of the loneliest, love is war, and at bottom the greatest will to power."

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

"I would not speak unto the people; I speak unto each one individually."

"Arise! Arise! Thou small thief, thou labour-thief! Thou shalt perish!"

"Oh, that ye understood my word: 'Do always what thou wilt—and let no one compel thee!'"

"I teach you not the neighbour, but the friend. Let the friend be unto you a festival of the earth."

"The most silent word is called discretion; and the most silent deed is called discretion."