The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.