“Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.”

“A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.”

“It is the evening that questions thus from within me.”

“Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.”

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“But grant me from time to time—if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil—grant me the sight, but one glance of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, mighty, triumphant, something still capable of arousing fear! Of a man who justifies man, of a complementary and redeeming lucky hit on the part of man for the sake of which one may still believe in man!”

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”