To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

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.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!