The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

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.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.