...there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge...
One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature.
What did we do when we unchained this earth from its sun?
Are we not straying through an infinite nothing?
God is dead.
God remains dead. And we have killed him.
Human existence is uncanny and still without meaning: a jester can become man's fatality.
I will teach men the meaning of their existence - the overman, the lightning out of the dark cloud of man.
"Zarathustra has changed, Zarathustra has become a child, Zarathustra is an awakened one;
what do you now want among the sleepers?
You lived in your solitude as in the sea, and the sea carried you. Alas, would you now climb ashore? Alas, would you again drag your own body?"
You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality:
your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue.