“One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.”

“in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.”

“In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.”

“It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the prerequisite of our life”

“For that I must descend into the depths, as you do in the evening when you go below the sea and bring light also to the underworld, you superabundant star!”

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

“Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. ”