In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.

Every past is worth condemning.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

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.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.