In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

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.

How much beer is in German intelligence?

In music the passions enjoy themselves.