That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.