Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

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