Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.

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.

Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.