On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.