Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"For life itself is the will to power."

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