Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.