It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

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.