From Thus Spoke Zarathustra

• "You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?"
• "'No,' answered Zarathustra, 'I give no alms. For that I am not poor enough.'"
• "Man is something that shall be overcome."
• "My pity is no crucifixtion."
• "I love him who lives to know, and who wants to know."
• "Human existence is uncanny and still without meaning: a jester can become man's fatality."
• "Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his blood."
• "I want to have goblins around me, for I am courageous."
• "True, we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness."
• "When I am at the top, I always find myself alone."
• "Know that the noble man stands in everybody's way . . . The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that the old be preserved."
• "But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!"
• "Praiseworthy is whatever seems difficult to a people; whatever seems indispensable and difficult is called good; and whatever liberates even out of the deepest need, the rarest, the most difficult -- that they call holy."
• "First, people were creators; and only in later times, individuals. Veryily, the individual himself is still the most recent creation."
• "The delight of the hed is more ancient than the delight in the ego; and as long as the good conscience is identified with the herd, only the bad conscience say: I."
• The you is older than the I; the you has been pronounced holy, but not yet the I: so man crowds toward his neighbor."
• "Higher yet than the love of human beings I esteem the love of things and ghosts."
• "Your dominant thought I want to hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. Are you one of those who had the right to escape from a yoke? There are some who threw away their last value when they threw away their servitude."
• "You force many to relearn about you; they charge it bitterly against you. You came close to them and yet passed by: that they will never forgive. You pass over and beyond them: but the higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly."
• "They like to crucify those who invent their own virtue for themselves -- they hate the lonely one."
• "But the worst enemy you can encounter will always be you, yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caves and woods."
• "The warrior does not like all-too-sweet fruit; therefore he likes woman; even the sweetest woman is bitter. Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman."
• "But let this be your honor: always to love more than you are loved, and never to be second."
• "But if you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good."
• "Would that you would invent for me the justice that acquits al, except him that judges!"
• "But how could I think of being just through and through? How can I give each his own? Let this be sufficient for me: I give each my own."
• "You shall build over and beyond yourself, but first you must be built yourself, perpendicular in body and soul. You shall not only reproduce yourself, but produce something higher."
• "Die at the right time -- thus teaches Zarathustra. Of course, how could those who never live at the right time die at the right time?"
• "This is your thirst: to become sacrifices and gifts yourselves; and that is why you thirst to pile up all the riches in your soul."
• "All names of good and evil are parables; they do not define, they merely hint. A fool is he who wants knowledge of them!"
• "The man of knowledge must not only love his enemies, he must also be able to hate his friends."
• "One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
• "You had not yet sought yourselves: and you found me. Thus do all believers; therefore all faith amounts to so little."
• "If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and I do pity, it is preferably from a distance."
• "As long as there have been men, man has felt too little joy: that alone, my brothers, is our original sin."
• "Therefore I wash my hand when it has helped the sufferer; therefore I wipe even my soul. Having seen the sufferer suffer, I was ashamed for the sake of his shame; and when I helped him, I transgressed grievously against his pride."
• "The bite of consciousness teaches men to bite."
• "Verily, even evil deeds are better than petty thoughts . . . But a petty thought is like a fungus: it creeps and stoops and does not want to be anywhere -- until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi."
• "And if a friend does you evil, then say: 'I forgive you what you did to me; but that you have done it to yourself -- how could I forgive that?' Thus speaks all great love: it overcomes even forgiveness and pity."
• "Thus spoke the devil to me once more: 'God too has his hell: that is his love of man.' And most recently I heard him say this: 'God is dead; God died of his pity for man.'"
• "All great love is even above all its pity: for it still wants to create the beloved."
• "They have called "God" what was contrary to them and gave them pain; and verily, thre was much of the heroic in their adoration. And they did not know how to love their god except by crucifying man."
• "And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine -- what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire."
• "But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in who the impulse to punish is powerful. They are poeple of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust al who talk much of their justice!"
• "Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life; with its own agony it increases its own knowledge."
• "You have often made wisdom into a poorhouse and a hospital for bad poets."
• "The danger of those who always give is that they lose their sense of shame; and the heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out."