Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

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

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.