Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

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.