To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.