Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

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.

Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.