One Has To Know The Size Of

Close Beside My Knowledge Lies My Black Ignorance.

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?

Verily, I Do Not Want To Be Like The Ropemakers: They Drag Out Their Threads And Always Walk Backwards.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading The Way. No Stream Is Large And Copious Of Itself, But Becomes Great By Receiving And Leading On So Many Tributary Streams. It Is So, Also, With All Intellectual Greatness, It Is Only A Question Of Someone Indicating The Direction To Be Followed By So Many Affluent; Not Whether He Was Richly Or Poorly Gifted Originally.

When Zarathustra Was Alone . . . He Said To His Heart: "could It Be Possible! This Old Saint In The Forest Hath Not Yet Heard Of It, That God Is Dead!"