Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.