"On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man."
- Jules Verne
"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
" My wisdom hath for long gathered like a cloud. So does every wisdom that shall one day give birth unto lightnings. Unto these men I do not seek to be a light, or called a light by them. Them I will blind. O lightning of my wisdom! Gouge their eyes out!"
- Thus Spake Zarathusra
"Every hour they become smaller, poorer, less fertile. Poor pot-herbs! Poor soil! And soon they shall stand there like dry grass and prairie, and, verily, wearied of themselves- and longing for fire more than for water."
- Thus Spake Zarathusra
"Thus thou art compelled to mount above thyself, up, upwards until thou seest below thyself even thy stars. Ay, to look down unto one's self and even unto one's stars: only that would I call my summit, that hath been reserved for me as my last summit."
- Thus Spake Zarathusra
"What is great is so strange unto your soul that beyond-man would be terrible unto you by his kindness. Ye wise and knowing men, ye would flee from the burning sun of wisdom, in which beyond-man rejoiceth to bathe his nakedness. Ye would call him devil."
- Thus Spake Zarathusra
"And now one cloud after another hath rolled over the spirit, until at last madness preached; 'Everything perisheth, therefore all is worthy to perish.' And this law of time is justice, that time must devour its own children- thus madness preached."
- Thus Spake Zarathusra
"Good and evil, rich and poor, high and low, and all the names of values; they shall be weapons and clashing signs that life always hath to surpass itself again."
- Friedrich Nietzche
"Only by valuing is there value; without valuing the nut of existence would be hollow. Listen, ye who are creators. Change of values- i.e change of creators. He who is obliged to be a creator ever destroyeth."
- Friedrich Nietzche