This world is the will to power and nothing besides!

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

All truths are bloody truths to me.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.