“Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?”

“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.”

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it”

“This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.”

“The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.”