Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None quotes

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.

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

Lo! I show you THE LAST MAN.

I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.

One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a scholar.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strange soundeth the precept: “Die at the right time!”

“Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!”

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

There is more sagacity in thy body than in thy best wisdom. And who then knoweth why thy body requireth just thy best wisdom?

To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.

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

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

I learned to walk; since then have I let myself run. I learned to fly; since then I do not need pushing in order to move from a spot.

I love him who seeketh to create beyond himself, and thus succumbeth.