We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.