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

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

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

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

“And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.”

“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!”

“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”