Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

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.

This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.