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.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.

The universe without music would be madness.