I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

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.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.