He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will that the sun shall rise”; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, “I wish it to roll”; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, “Here I lie, but here I wish to lie.” But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression “I wish”?

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.