I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that. |
I do not know how to make a distinction between tears and music. |
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.'' |
I do not love my neighbor near, but wish he were high up and far. How else could he become my star? |
I draw circles and sacred boundaries about me; fewer and fewer climb with me up higher and higher mountains.—I am building a mountain chain out of ever-holier mountains. |
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. |
I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar. |
I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite. |
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . . |
I live in my own place - have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh |
I love those who do not know how to live for today. |
I no longer want to walk on worn soles. |
I should account as the foremost musician one who knew only the sadness of the most profound happiness, and no other sadness at all. |
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. |
I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome. |