I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

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

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.