All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.