We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.