What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.