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

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

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

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.