Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy