Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

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

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?