The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

What doesn't kill you make you stronger.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.