The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

In the end one only experiences oneself.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.