Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm.

Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.