Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.