Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

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.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.