Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.