Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.