Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"The worst enmity is coldness and courtesy."

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

"All that is deep loves the mask."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 even of their blunders."

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

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

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

"I teach you the Übermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome."

"There is nobility in labour, not shame."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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