I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

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.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.