What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.