no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

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.