The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.

From the practice of wise men.—To become wise, one must wish to have certain experiences and run, as it were, into their gaping jaws. This, of course, is very dangerous; many a wise guy has been swallowed.

Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature —nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present—and it was we who gave and bestowed it.

Because thou once saidest, O Zarathustra: ‘Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life';—that led and allured me to thy doctrine. And verily, with mine own blood have I increased mine own knowledge!

In your death , your spirit and your virtue should still glow like a sunset around the earth, otherwise yours is a bad death.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.