The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness