Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

We must repay goodness and wickedness: but why exactly to the person who has done us a good or a wicked turn?