Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.