“I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts.”

“From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.”

“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”

“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't. ”

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”

“You shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: you must be proud of your foes. Thus have I already taught.”