Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.