We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

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

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.