I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.