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“Destination and paths. Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination.”

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

“Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.”

Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation

“There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world’s religions.”

Variant: There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Source: Human, All Too Human

“A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.”

Source: The Gay Science

“Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”

Variant: Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”

II.293, maxim 358 http://books.google.kz/books?id=Nl-vaAdJD3MC&pg=PA293&dq=%22In+the+mountains+of+truth+you+will+never+climb+in+vain%22&hl=en
Human, All Too Human (1878)

“We do not believe in any right that is not supported by the power of enforcement”

Sec. 120 (Spring-Fall 1887)
The Will to Power (1888)
Context: More natural is our position in politics: We see problems of power, of one quantum of power against another. We do not believe in any right that is not supported by the power of enforcement: we feel all rights to be conquests.

“What does man actually know about himself?”

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him — even concerning his own body — in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key.

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”

Variant: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra