I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.