In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.