Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

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.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

The Antichrist, Section 7