... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.