As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

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

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.