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

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

Pity makes suffering contagious.