Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

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