Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.