For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he would again and again accept it as true. Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will. Fanaticism is the sole "volitional strength" to which the weak and irresolute can be excited, as a sort of hypnotising of the entire sensory-intellectual system.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

Remain true to the earth.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.