A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.