"Blessed are the sleepy ones, for they will soon drop off."
Humor
"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome."
Philosophy
"Dead are all the gods: now we desire the Übermensch to live."
Philosophy
"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Creativity
"I love those who do not first look behind the stars in order to find reasons for going down and being sacrifices."
Wisdom
"Beware of those for whom the lust for punishment is powerful!"
Wisdom
"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."
Politics
"Suffering and incapacity shall be removed! Thus reason all your neighbours."
Justice
"I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."
Change
"The teachers of virtue are not those who have virtue, but those who lack it."
Education
"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
Philosophy
"Every people speaks of its virtue. But virtue is not the same everywhere."
Wisdom
"I would believe only in a God that could dance."
Faith
"You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm."
Philosophy
"A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength—life itself is will to power."
Power
"Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war and victory."
Strength
"The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself."
"Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off."
Humor
"All that is deep loves the mask."
Truth
"Become who you are."
Philosophy
"The most spiritually inclined are the greatest learners of suffering."
Wisdom
"I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants nothing and demands nothing."
Love
"Many die too late, and some die too early. Strange sounds it!"
Death
"Virtue must be our own invention, our most personal defense and necessity."
"The body is the greater reason; it does the greater part of becoming conscious."
Wisdom
"There is something in me that is nameless, it is true—but I am not ashamed of it."
Courage
"Intellect is now light and weight to me; a third thing I have learned to want."
Knowledge
"Your virtue is not of the kind that makes famous."
Wisdom
"The man of science is a new species, and no one knows what he can do."
Science
"All joy wants eternity, wants deep, wants deep eternity."
Happiness