The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.