Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

A living being seeks, above all, to discharge its strength. Life is will to power.

No victor believes in chance.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.