One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.

In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.