Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.