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

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.