Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?