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

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.