Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.