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

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.