We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

Without passions you have no experience whatever.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.