The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.
Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth into light!
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?
What the father kept silent the son speaks out.
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!