The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.