From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").