You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.
One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence.
Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves.
He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.
Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?
The free man is a warrior.
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.
One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called “freedom.”
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods.
Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
The last Christian died on a cross.
Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.
To be the equal of one’s opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.
Where one despises, one cannot wage war.
And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul’s breath: thus my future wills it.