It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

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.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!